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distinguished as
Symeon Metaphrastes (Latin) or
Symeon the
Metaphrast (Ancient Gr****: Συμεών ὁ Μεταφραστής, Symeṓn ho
Metaphrastḗs), was a
Byzantine writer...
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difficult to determine.
Ancient historians Josephus,
Nicephorus and
Symeon Metaphrastes ****umed that
Herodias had it
buried in the
fortress of Machaerus. An...
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continental calendars. In the 10th century, a
Byzantine monk
Simeon Metaphrastes was the
first one to
change the
genre of
lives of the
saints into something...
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monasteries is
explained in a
medieval hagiography written by
Simeon Metaphrastes, in Vita
Sancti Theodosii Coenobiarchae in
which he
wrote that Theodosius...
- ISBN 978-1-4381-3026-2.
George was an
historical figure.
According to an
account by
Metaphrastes,
George was born in
Cappadocia (in
modern Turkey) to a
noble Christian...
- army
officers in Armenia.
Their saints’
story is told in
Menalogion of
Metaphrastes.
Nearchus was Christian, but
Polyeuctus was not. The men had a strong...
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Epistle of James. It is the
source for the
entry on
James in
Symeon Metaphrastes.
Andrew of Crete's name was also
attached to an
iconodule treatise of...
- of John the
Baptist is
difficult to determine.
Nicephorus and
Symeon Metaphrastes say that
Herodias had it
buried in the
fortress of
Machaerus (in accordance...
- Juvénal, Saturae, 6, 542–547. In:
Revue des études
latines 92:1–6 "Theroux
Metaphrastes: An
Essay on Literature," in
Three Wogs (Boston:
David Godine, 195),...
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Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry.
Interesting is the
reference of
Symeon Metaphrastes (the
greatest of the
Byzantine historians),
which says that the Samian...
