Michael Choniates
Saint Michael Choniates, Metropolitan of Athens | |
|---|---|
Vodonitsa, Thermopylae | |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodoxy |
| Feast | 4 July |
| Attributes | Bishops vestments |
| Patronage | City of Athens |
Saint Michael Choniates (or Acominatus;
Vodonitsa near Thermopylae
, where he died.
Though he is known to
archbishop of Thessalonica
, deserve special mention.
It is believed that his daughter Constantina tutored, in Greek and science,
Archdeacon of Leicester known for his fluency in and advocacy of the Greek language.[4] Michael's pupil George Bardanes, who had accompanied him during his exile on Ceos, became a distinguished bishop in subsequent years.[5]
Notes
- ^ Kenneth M. Setton, "A Note on Michael Choniates, Archbishop of Athens (1182-1204)", Speculum, 21 (1946), pp. 234-236
- ^ N.G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium 1983:204-06.
- ^ A.S. Hollis, "A New Fragment on Niobe and the Text of Propertius 2.20.8". The Classical Quarterly, New Series, 47.2 (1997:578-582).
- ^ Archer, Thomas Andrew (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
References
- Edition of his works by Spyridon Lambros (1879-1880)
- Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxL.
- Adolf Ellissen, Michael Akominatos (1846), containing several pieces with German translation
- Ferdinand Gregorovius, Geschichte der Stadt Athen im Mittelalter, i, (1889)
- George Finlay, History of Greece, iv. pp. 133–134 (1877).
- Thallon, C. A Medieval Humanist: Michael Akominatos (New Haven, 1923) (reprint New York, 1973).
- Stadtmüller, G. "Michael Choniates, Metropolit von Athen," Orientalia Christiana, 33,2 (1934), 125–325.
- Setton, K. M. "Athens in the Later Twelfth Century," Speculum, XIX (1944), 179–207.
- Anthony Kaldellis, "Michael Choniates: a classicist-bishop and his cathedral (1182–1205 AD)," in Idem, The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009), 145–162.
- Nario Gallina, "La reazione antiromana nell'epistolario di Michele Coniata Metropolita d'Atene" in Gherardo Ortalli, Giorgio Ravegnani, Peter Schreiner, eds. Quarta Crociata (Venice, 2006. ISBN 88-88143-74-2) vol. 1 pp. 423–446
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Acominatus, Michael". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 150–151.
- Athanasios Angelou, «Rhetoric and History: The case of Nicetas Choniates», στο History as Literature in Byzantium, ed. Ruth Macrides, Farnham, Ashgate 2010, σ. 289–305.
