The Psalter was one of the most copied texts in Late Antiquity and in Byzantium. The rewriting of the Greek Psalter is currently a living object of study. Thus, in recent years, critical editions have been prepared on the Metaphrase of the Psalms of Apollinaris of Laodicea (Faulkner 2020) and on the Methaphrase of the…
Although composed in 1703 by the monk Euthymios in the Central Greek monastery of Christ the Savior, the Chronicle of Galaxidi has been recognized as a valuable source for the Byzantine history of this region. Euthymios relates that he drew his information from authentic manuscripts, parchments, sigilia and chrysobulls which survived and were available to…
Plato of Ancyra, who according to tradition was martyred in the first years of the fourth century, did not spark an extensive literary tradition; the martyr’s name is mainly found in connection with sacred buildings in Galatia, but a church was also dedicated to him in Constantinople. Only two Greek narrative texts are known, which…
The centuries-old Georgian hagiography (V-XI cc) is the most valuable source not only for studying the history of the Georgian Orthodox Church, but also for presenting vitae, the lives, deeds and endeavors of its heroes, who “of their own free will”, and not by force, gave themselves up for the love of Christ, for the…