Two epigrams by George of Pisidia in the Greek Anthology
The first book of the Greek Anthology offers the text of two verse inscriptions from the church of Blachernai: AP 1.120 ἐν Βλαχέρναις· ἴαμβοι and AP 1.121 εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν ναόν. These inscriptions celebrate the miraculous delivery of Constantinople in 626 when the city was besieged by the Av...
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| description | The first book of the Greek Anthology offers the text of two verse inscriptions from the church of Blachernai: AP 1.120 ἐν Βλαχέρναις· ἴαμβοι and AP 1.121 εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν ναόν. These inscriptions celebrate the miraculous delivery of Constantinople in 626 when the city was besieged by the Avars and the Slavs (with the military aid of their allies, the Persians, from across the Bosporus): in contemporary sources, such as the homily De obsidione avarica by Theodore Synkellos, the Bellum Avaricum by George of Pisidia, and the Chronicon Paschale, this unexpected victory was unanimously attributed to the divine guardian of the city, the Theotokos, who was even said to have appeared on the city-walls and to have taken part in the naval battle in the Golden Horn, near her sanctuary at Blachernai. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:1537c4df-e754-4f31-a0e5-51c09fd24cdf2023-01-17T14:57:33ZTwo epigrams by George of Pisidia in the Greek AnthologyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:1537c4df-e754-4f31-a0e5-51c09fd24cdfEnglishSymplectic ElementsNational Hellenic Research Foundation2022Lauxtermann, MThe first book of the Greek Anthology offers the text of two verse inscriptions from the church of Blachernai: AP 1.120 ἐν Βλαχέρναις· ἴαμβοι and AP 1.121 εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν ναόν. These inscriptions celebrate the miraculous delivery of Constantinople in 626 when the city was besieged by the Avars and the Slavs (with the military aid of their allies, the Persians, from across the Bosporus): in contemporary sources, such as the homily De obsidione avarica by Theodore Synkellos, the Bellum Avaricum by George of Pisidia, and the Chronicon Paschale, this unexpected victory was unanimously attributed to the divine guardian of the city, the Theotokos, who was even said to have appeared on the city-walls and to have taken part in the naval battle in the Golden Horn, near her sanctuary at Blachernai. |
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