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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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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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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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dated as no
later than the 7th century; the later,
revised by
Simeon Metaphrastes,
dates from the 10th century. The Ge'ez and
Arabic versions of the text...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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another possibly by
Leontios of Neapolis. The
former was used by
Simeon Metaphrastes.
Arabic and
Georgian hagiographies also survive. In the 650s A.D., when...
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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...
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saint and
hermit Simeon I of
Bulgaria (866–927),
Bulgarian tsar
Symeon Metaphrastes (10th century?),
Byzantine hagiographer Symeon the New
Theologian (949–1022)...
