1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
SYMEON METAPHRASTES,1 the most renowned of the Byzantine hagiographcrs. Scholars have been very much divided as to the period in which he lived, dates ranging from the 9th century to the I4th 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…
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- Vol. 26, pp. 285-285