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Encyclopedia Britannica



SYMEON METAPHRASTES

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 285 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
SYMEON METAPHRASTES ,1 the most renowned of the
Byzantine
  hagiographers. 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
 . Still greater divergences of
opinion
  have existed as to the lives of saints coming from his pen, and here again the solution of the problem has been attained by studying the composition of the
great
 
Greek
  menologies. 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). Among other works attributed (though with some uncertainty) to Symeon are a Chronicle, a canonical collection, some letters and poems, and other writings of less importance. Symeon's
great
  popularity is due more particularly to his collection of lives of saints. About his
life
  we know only very few details. The Greeks honour him as a saint on the 28th of November, and an
office
  has been composed in his honour.
See L. Allatius, De Symeonum scriptis diatriba (Paris, 1664) ; F. Hirsch, Byzantinische Studien, pp. 303355 (
Leipzig
 , 1876); A. Ehrhard, Die Legendensammlung des Symeon Metaphrastes (Rome, 1897); and in ROmische Quartalschrift (1897), pp. 67205 and 531553; H. Delehaye, La Vie de S.
Paul
  le jeune et la chronologie de Metaphraste (1893) ; Analecta Bollandiana, xvi. 312327 and xvii. 448452. (H. DE.)


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