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A Rhetorical Declamation of Sophonias the Monk and Paraphrast

  • Denis M. Searby and Ambjörn Sjörs
Published/Copyright: August 3, 2011
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Abstract

Codex Marcianus Graecus 266 contains a declamation in the character of Paul speaking before the Athenian Areopagus that is attributed to the learned monk Sophonias. This previously unpublished text is valuable both as an example of late Byzantine rhetoric and as additional testimony to the Sophonias known through historical sources to have acted as a representative of Emperor Andronikos II Palaeologos and to whom a paraphrase of Aristotelian works is attributed. The text is introduced, edited and translated for the first time.

Published Online: 2011-08-03
Published in Print: 2011-08-01

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