George of Pisidia
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)George of Pisidia (
, who flourished during the 7th century AD.His poems suggest that he was a Pisidian by birth, and a friend of
Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople and the Emperor Heraclius. He was a deacon, guardian of the sacred vessels, referendary, and chartophylax (keeper of the records) of the church of St. Sophia.[1]
His works have been published in the original Greek with a Latin version. About five thousand verses of his poetry, most in trimetric iambics, have survived.
His earliest work, in three cantos, is De expeditione Heraclii imperatoris contra Persas, libri tres on Heraclius' campaign against the
Chosroes in 627.[1] In his paper The Official History of Heraclius' Persian Campaigns,[2] James Howard-Johnston makes a strong case for George of Pisida also having composed a now lost account of Heraclius' Persian campaigns in a combination of prose and poetry. This account was apparently based on Heraclius' own dispatches from Persia to the citizens of Constantinople and was available for Theophanes the Confessor
as a basis for his Chronographia.
Next he wrote In sanctam Jesu Christi, Dei nostri resurrectionem, in which the poet exhorts Flavius Constantinus to follow in the footsteps of his father, Heraclius. There was also a didactic poem, , and Isaac Tzetzes, mention other lost works.
Michael Psellus later compared him with, and even prefers him to, Euripides. George of Pisidia has been suggested as a possible author of the Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos
.
References
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "George Pisida". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 748.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: A. A. MacErlean (1913). "George Pisides". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ISBN 8323307504.
Further reading
- Howard-Johnson, James (2010). Witnesses To A World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199694990.
- Giorgio di Pisidia (1998). Tartaglia, Luigi (ed.). Carmi [Poems]. Turin: UTET.. Latest edition of the Greek text of the complete works of George of Pisidia, with facing page Italian translation.
- F. Lauritzen, Plato’s Parmenides in Seventh-Century Constantinople, George of Pisidia’s Hexameron, 1639-93, F. Lauritzen S. Wear, Byzantine Platonists 284-1453, Steubenville 2021, 143-155.
- F. Lauritzen, Late antique philosophy and the poetry of George of Pisidia in N. Kröll, Myth, Religion, Tradition, and Narrative in Late Antique Greek Poetry, Wiener Studien Beiheft 41 (2020) 59-68.
