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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789998903321

Autore

Paul, the Silentiary, <6th cent.>

Titolo

Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae [[electronic resource] ] : Descriptio ambonis / / Pavlvs Silentiarivs ; edidit Clavdio De Stefani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter, c2011

ISBN

1-283-16580-5

9786613165800

3-11-023907-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, , 1864-399X

Classificazione

FK 46301

Altri autori (Persone)

De StefaniClaudio

Paul, the Silentiary,  <6th cent.>

Disciplina

881/.02

Soggetti

Greek poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Critical edition.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- HOC VOLVMINE CONTINENTVR -- Praefatio -- Conspectus siglorum -- Conspectus librorum -- Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae -- Descriptio Ambonis -- Codicis Palatini ortographia et menda leviora -- Index locorum similium et in apparatu laudatorum -- Index verborum

Sommario/riassunto

The two poems Descriptio S. Sophiae and Descriptio Ambonis of Paul the Silentiary, composed for the inauguration (562 AD) of the church of St. Sophia (Istanbul) after its partial rebuilding, are an invaluable source for the history of Byzantine arts and a beautiful piece of late Greek poetry. Silentiary's poems respectively describe the church and its (now lost) pulpit. The Descriptio S. Sophiae also contains a lavish praise of emperor Justinian and of the patriarch Eutichius. De Stefani's edition is based on a collation of the witness of the text, Heid. Pal. gr. 23, and takes into account all previous bibliography. Some corrupted passages of the poems have been emendated, the few false readings still present in the text printed by the last, authoritative editor, P. Friedländer (1912), have been corrected.