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Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history—when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The bishops of the region provided much-needed leadership and institutional stability, while ascetics established hermitages and faced invaders. The Lives gathered here include accounts of Peter of Argos, which offers insight into episcopal authority in medieval Greece, and Theodore of Kythera, an important source for the history of piracy in the Aegean Sea.
This volume, which illustrates the literary variety of saints’ Lives, presents Byzantine Greek texts written by locals in the provinces and translated here into English for the first time.
Introduction
Saint Nicholas the Younger
Saint Athanasios of Methone
Saint Peter of Argos
Saint Theokletos of Lakedaimon
Saint Theodore of Kythera
Saint Arsenios of Kerkyra
Notes
Martyrdom of Nicholas the Younger
Encomium of Nicholas the Younger by the Presbyter Achaïkos
Funeral Oration for Athanasios, Bishop of Methone, by Peter, Bishop of Argos
Life of Peter, Bishop of Argos, by Theodore, Bishop ?f Nicaea
Life and Miracles of Theokletos, Bishop of Lakedaimon
Life of Theodore of Kythera by Leo
Commemoration of Arsenios, Archbishop of Kerkyra
Abbreviations
Note on the Texts
Notes to the Texts
Notes to the Translations
Bibliography
Index
Description
Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history—when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The bishops of the region provided much-needed leadership and institutional stability, while ascetics established hermitages and faced invaders. The Lives gathered here include accounts of Peter of Argos, which offers insight into episcopal authority in medieval Greece, and Theodore of Kythera, an important source for the history of piracy in the Aegean Sea.
This volume, which illustrates the literary variety of saints’ Lives, presents Byzantine Greek texts written by locals in the provinces and translated here into English for the first time.
