Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae. Descriptio Ambonis / / Paulus Silentiarius; Claudio de Stefani.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy 2000 - 2014
• VerfasserIn: Silentiarius, Paulus,
• HerausgeberIn: Stefani, Claudio de,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: Ancient Greek
• Series: Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (163 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; HOC VOLVMINE CONTINENTVR --; Praefatio --; Conspectus siglorum --; Conspectus librorum --; Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae --; Descriptio Ambonis --; Codicis Palatini ortographia et menda leviora --; Index locorum similium et in apparatu laudatorum --; Index verborum
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110239072; 9783110636949; 9783110261189; 9783110261219
• ISSN: 1864-399X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110239072
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paulus Silentiarius; Claudio de Stefani.

The two poems Descriptio S. Sophiae and Descriptio Ambonis of Paul the Silentiary, composed for the inauguration (562 AD) of the church of St. Sophia (Istanbul) after its partial rebuilding, are an invaluable source for the history of Byzantine arts and a beautiful piece of late Greek poetry. Silentiary's poems respectively describe the church and its (now lost) pulpit. The Descriptio S. Sophiae also contains a lavish praise of emperor Justinian and of the patriarch Eutichius. De Stefani’s edition is based on a collation of the witness of the text, Heid. Pal. gr. 23, and takes into account all previous bibliography. Some corrupted passages of the poems have been emendated, the few false readings still present in the text printed by the last, authoritative editor, P. Friedländer (1912), have been corrected.