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	Symeon Metaphrastes
		The epithet Metaphrastes may be rendered Compiler; it is given to him from the usual name for such arrangements of saints' lives (metáphrasis, compilation).
		Symeon's chief work, the one to which he owes his great reputation in the Byzantine Church, is the collection of Legends.
		It may be noticed that the authentic ones are chiefly those in the early months of the year, from September (the Byzantine Calendar begins in September; the saints in the Menology are arranged as their feasts occur).
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/metaphrastes,symeon.html (772 words)

	Symeon Metaphrastes - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Scholars have been very much divided as to the period in which he lived, dates ranging from the 9th century to the 14th having been suggested; but it is now generally agreed that he flourished in the second half of the loth century.
		The menology of Metaphrastes is a collection of lives of saints for the twelve months of the year, easily recognizable among analogous collections, and consisting of about 150 distinct pieces, some of which are taken bodily from older collections, while others have been subjected to a new recension (p,erac15paais).
		Symeon's great popularity is due more particularly to his collection of lives of saints.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Symeon_Metaphrastes (273 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.9.26
		Still, Krueger argues that Leontios' Symeon is a new creation: Mark had adopted a pose of foolishness, and did operate in a city, but for Mark life in the city was a sort of penance after his failure to achieve virtue in the desert.
		Symeon is a "holy man" in a fairly conventional way for the first half of the Life, and later in the novel way of being a fool.
		Symeon is a holy "man", but his masculinity is of a type that directly contrasts with the classical tropes of masculinity (something that could be said about Diogenes the Cynic also of course).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1996/96.09.26.html (2681 words)

	The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
		It is told in Greek by Symeon Metaphrastes (q.v.) in his "Lives of the Saints" for the month of July.
		Of all these versions and re-editions it seems that the Greek form of the story, which is the basis of Symeon Metaphrastes, is the source.
		Metaphrastes' version is in P.G., CXV, 427-448; Gregory of Tours, Passio VII Dormientium in the Anal.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/seven_sleepers_of_ephesus.html (758 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 950 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		After some years Symeon, who had experienced trouble and danger from the turbulence of some recusant monks, resigned the abbacy, and devoted himself to the composition of works of piety.
		The charge against Symeon was, that he paid unauthorized honour to the memory of his spiritual father, Symeon the Pious, who was now dead j and to whom our Symeon paid the honours due to a canonized saint.
		In consequence of this difference Symeon, after six years of persecution, was banished from his monastery, and from Constantinople, by the patriarch and synod.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3284.html (741 words)

	Symeon the Logothete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The chronicle of Symeon Logothete has been preserved in three forms: an original written to magnify the deeds of Romanos Lekapenos; as the continuation to the Epitome of George the Monk; and as the so-called Chronicle of Pseudo-Symeon.
		Symeon's chronicle covers the period AD 842-948, and consists of three sections which differ in style and perspective.
		Symeon Logothete, we might conclude, was an official at the court of Romanos Lekapenos, who was commissioned to produce an official history of that emperor's reign.
	homepage.mac.com /paulstephenson/trans/logothete.html (536 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1055 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We shall only mention, that it appears from different passages in works of which the authorship of this Symeon (Metaphrastes) is pretty well established, that he lived in the time of the emperor Leo VI.
		Philosophus; that in 902 he was sent a$ ambassador to the Arabs in Crete, and in 904 to those Arabs who had conquered Thessalonica, whom he per suaded to desist from their plan of destroying that opulent city; and that he was still alive in the time of the emperor Constantine VII.
		The biographers of Metaphrastes were in their turn remodelled by later writers, and in many places completely mutilated; but whatever was left untouched is easily to be distinguished from the additions.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2163.html (860 words)

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		SYMEON METAPHRASTES,1 the most renowned of the Byzantine hagiographers.
		The menology of Metaphrastes is a collection of lives of saints for the twelve months of the year, easily recognizable among analogous collections, and consisting of about 150 distinct pieces, some of which are taken bodily from older collections, while others have been subjected to a new recension (,ueret pavts).
		303–355 (Leipzig, 1876); A. Ehrhard, Die Legendensammlung des Symeon Metaphrastes (Rome, 1897); and in ROmische Quartalschrift (1897), pp.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=64152 (294 words)

	St. Barbara - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
		At about this date there were in existence legendary Acts of her martyrdom which were inserted in the collection of Symeon Metaphrastes and were used as well by the authors (Ado, Usuard, etc.) of the enlarged martyrologies composed during the ninth century in Western Europe.
		A pious man called Valentinus buried the bodies of the saints; at this grave the sick were healed and the pilgrims who came to pray received aid and consolation.
		In the "Martyrologium Romanum parvum" (about 700), the oldest martyrology of the Latin Church in which her name occurs, it is said: "In Tuscia Barbarae virginis et martyris", a statement repeated by Ado and others, while later additions of the martyrologies of St. Jerome and Bede say "Romae Barbarae virginis" or "apud Antiochiam passio S.
	www.heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Barbara.html&print=true (730 words)

	translives.html
		Matrona of Perge, vita by Symeon Metaphrastes (BHG 1222).
		Symeon Stylites the Elder, vita by Theodoret of Cyrrhus (BHG 1678)
		Symeon Stylites the Elder, vita by Symeon Metaphrastes (BHG 1686)
	www.doaks.org /translives.html (4217 words)

	Survey of Translations of Byzantine Saints' Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Matrona of Perge - vita by Symeon Metaphrastes (BHG 1222)
		Symeon Stylites the Elder - vita by Theodoret of Cyrrhus (BHG 1678)
		Symeon the (New) Theologian - vita by Niketas Stethatos (BHG 1692)
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/sterk/Byzantine/SaintsLiveslist.htm (1653 words)

	Patron Saint of EOD
		It was about that time the legend about her martyrdom arose and was introduced in Symeon Metaphrastes collections.
		The legend was frequently used by the authors (Ado, Usuard, et al.) of the enlarged description of the history of martyrs that arose in Western Europe during the 9th century.
		According to Symeon Metaphrastes and the Latin legend told by Mobritus, Saint Barbara’s martyrdom took place in Heliopolis, Egypt.
	www.bragg.army.mil /EOD/patron_saint.htm (1340 words)

	St Symeon the New Theologian and Spiritual Fatherhood by H. J. M. Turner, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 9004091661
		Besides his importance as a Christian mystic, St. Symeon - The New Theologian is a valuable source of information concerning the objectives of a spiritual father and his clients, the kinds of training given by a father to his disciples, and the difficulties encountered in the relationship.
		These and kindred matters are considered in some detail in this study, which comprises an examination of Symeon's background, his experience as a disciple and a spiritual father and of the teaching he gave in the latter capacity.
		Symeon the New Theologian: The Practical and Theol...
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/9004091661.html (463 words)

	Symeon Metaphrastes, Lives and martyrdoms of saints commemorated between 8 May and 29 August (selection) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Symeon Metaphrastes, Lives and martyrdoms of saints commemorated between 8 May and 29 August (selection)
		In the form of a cross at the end of the manuscript (fol.
		It was composed by the late Symeon, who became a magistros and logothetes, and written by Niketas the celebrated patrikios in charge of the bedchamber, protected by God, servant of our mighty, divinely appointed and Orthodox rulers, our Christ-loving sovereign Michael and most pious lady Zoe born in the purple.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/218/218er/e218er5.html (188 words)

	Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557) \| Publications for Educators \| Explore & Learn \| The Metropolitan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The earliest history of Saint Catherine’s cult is unclear, but the saint was certainly known in Byzantium by the tenth century, when the most well-known Greek version of her life was written by Symeon Metaphrastes.
		The Symeon referred to in the text is Saint Symeon of Trier, who is well known from his vita written by Eberwin, abbot of Saint Martin in Trier.
		Although Symeon did visit Rouen, R. Fawtier has argued convincingly that Symeon’s visit did not coincide with the founding of Sainte-Trinité-du-mont-de-Rouen and that Symeon was not the bearer of St. Catherine’s relics.
	www.metmuseum.org /explore/byzantium_III/monastery_7.html (516 words)

	Gouden Hoorn 9,1: Dirk Krausmüller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		11 He imitated his mentor Symeon Metaphrastes by leading the life of a monk in the midst of wordly affairs.
		However, the man is so baffled that at first he does not notice the change until Symeon tells him to examine the diseased spot.
		This allows us to gain an insight into the craft of a metaphrastes: the mention of fainting in the model acts as the "trigger" for the insertion of the topos which the authors are likely to have memorised during their training.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /goudenhoorn/91dirk.html (4157 words)

	SYMEON METAPHRASTES - Online Information article about SYMEON METAPHRASTES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		SYMEON METAPHRASTES,1 the most renowned of the See also:
		The menology of Metaphrastes is a collection of lives of saints for the twelve months of the See also:
		Paul le jeune et la chronologie de Metaphraste (1893) ; Analecta Bollandiana, xvi.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SUS_TAV/SYMEON_METAPHRASTES.html (389 words)

	Synaxarium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The short lives that form the lessons were composed or collected by various writers.
		Of these Symeon Metaphrastes is the most important.
		The accounts are of very varying historical value.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Synaxarium (630 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Symeon Metaphrastes: Lives of the Saints
		But for assessing the cult of saints in Byzantium the tenth-century "Metaphrastic" (rewritten) collection of saints' lives dominate the manuscript record.
		Also added, as it becomes available, is information on later editions, since the Migne collection was based on a limited number of manuscripts, and information on translations of particular lives.
		BHG 1686: Symeon Stylites the Elder - vita by Symeon Metaphrastes
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/metaphrast1.html (559 words)

	A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the ...
		The Life of St. Caecilia by Symeon Metaphrastes, a hagiographer of the 10th cent., makes her contemporary with Urban, and places her martyrdom at Rome under Alexander Severus, c.
		The account of her life and martyrdom by Symeon Metaphrastes, to be found in Surius, is of no authority.
		The narrative is full of marvels and improbabilities, and the internal evidence alone is quite sufficient to prove its legendary character, though some critics have of late endeavoured to uphold its credibility, and to refer its compilation in its present form to the commencement of the 5th cent.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.Caecilia_1.html (1549 words)

	8772896752 : Symeon Metaphrastes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The first monograph on the most important Byzantine redactor of saints' lives this book offers a detailed study of the life and working methods of Symeon Metaphrastes, who was active towards the end of the tenth century.
		The importance of the Metaphrastic redaction has often been measured by the amount of damage it did to the late-antique hagiographical texts, but in the present study it is seen as the culmination of long-term developments within this field.
		The Metaphrastic collection is studied in the context of its predecessors and in the gradual changes that occurred in the production of hagiography, especially as to the social background of authors, commissioners, and even saints.
	www.gazellebookservices.co.uk /ISBN/8772896752.htm (218 words)

	Symeon Metaphrastes, Lives of Saints commemorated in September (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Symeon Metaphrastes, Lives of Saints commemorated in September
		he codex contains a Georgian translation by the Georgian monk Theophilos (who is also the scribe) of Symeon Metaphrastes' synaxarion for the month of September.
		The importance of the manuscript lies in the fact that it contains the first Georgian translation from Greek of this work of Symeon's, as also that it preserves two very interesting notes, one at the beginning and one at the end, which reveal that Theophilos did this translation at Triandaphyllou Monastery in Constantinople.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/218/218et/e218et4.html (149 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: menology, menologium, menologe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A collection, arranged according to the months and days of the month, of long lives of the saints of the Greek Church.
		The principal compiler of these lives was Symeon Metaphrastes, who lived in the latter half of the 10th century.
		The name Menology is also given to a kind of calendar containing tables of scriptural lessons arranged according to the months and the feasts of the saints.
	www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/ncd05283.htm (163 words)

	PRAISING THE STYLITE IN SOUTHERN ITALY:
		An incentive for exploring Philagathos’ view of Symeon is the exquisite and highly original quality of his interpretation, so far unknown to modern exegetes of the Stylite.
		While it seems plausible that the text of Metaphrastes (and, through it, that of Theodoret) could both have served as a basis for Philagathos’ homily, there is one detail in the short narrative provided by our learned preacher for the benefit of his readers, that cannot be found in either of them.
		Life of Symeon by “Antonios” was also known to Philagathos, who probably supplied the detail “concerning the old man” into the larger hagiographic framework, most probably imported from a metaphrastic menologion.
	ktistes.altervista.org /stylite.html (8665 words)

	Subterranea of Turkey: Eshab-i Kehf - Grotto of Seven Sleepers
		Every year the feast of the Seven Sleepers is kept.
		Symeon Metaphrastes (q.v.) in his "Lives of the Saints" for the month of July.
		Symeon Metaphrastes is probably the most original written version.
	www.showcaves.com /english/tr/misc/Ephesus.html (490 words)

	Orthodox Saints for February
		When he reached the famous passage where the Prophet foretells the virgin birth of Christ, saying: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (Is. 7:14), he was so perplexed that he took a penknife to erase the word 'virgin' in order to replace it by 'young woman'.
		For indeed, the Elder Symeon was the living image of the ancient Israel of the Old Testament, which having awaited the coming of the Messiah was ready to fade away and give place to the light and truth of the Gospel.
		The relics of the holy and righteous Symeon were venerated at Constantinople in the church of St James, built at the time of the Emperor Justin.
	www.abbamoses.com /months/february.html (18160 words)

	Biography of Cyprian and Justina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		After the bodies of the saints had lain unburied for six days they were taken by Christian sailors to Rome where they were interred on the estate of a noble lady named Rufina and later were entombed in Constantine's basilica.
		This is the outline of the legend or allegory which is found, adorned with diffuse descriptions and dialogues, in the unreliable "Symeon Metaphrastes", and was made the subject of a poem by the Empress Eudocia II.
		The story, however, must have arisen as early as the fourth century, for it is mentioned both by St. Gregory Nazianzen and Prudentius; both, nevertheless, have confounded our Cyprian with St. Cyprian of Carthage, a mistake often repeated.
	www.portcult.com /SAINT_CYPRIAN.08.BIOGRAPHY.htm (373 words)

	The "Seven Sleepers" in DeQuincey's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater"
		The story of the Seven Sleepers concerns young men who fell asleep and woke up years afterwards to find the world changed.
		It was told in Greek by Symeon Metaphrastes in his "Lives of the Saints" for the month of July, by Gregory of Tours in Latin and by James of Sarug (d.
		According to Symeon Metaphrastes' story, Decius (249--251) went to Ephesus to enforce his laws against Christians and subjected them to a series of graphically described, gruesome horrors.
	www.victorianweb.org /previctorian/dequincey/3n4.html (513 words)

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		The one given first is the later redaction made by Symeon Metaphrastes in the tenth century.
		Extracts from the older vita prima are given later.
		It is usual to regard the first life of a saint as more authentic, but it is worth noting that in the later cult of saints the Metaphrastic version was the one that dominated.
	www.religiousmall.com /turnkey/rqt_sst123.html (259 words)

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