Nikephoros Blemmydes

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Nikephoros Blemmydes (Latinized as Nicephorus Blemmydes; Greek: Νικηφόρος Βλεμμύδης, 1197–1272) was a 13th-century Byzantine author.

Biography

Blemmydes was born in 1197 in

Nicaean Empire, and a great collector of classical texts. William of Rubruck reports that his benefactor, John III Doukas Vatatzes, owned a copy of the missing books from Ovid's Fasti.[1]

Blemmydes also founded a school where he taught students such as Prince Theodore II Laskaris and George Akropolites. In his later years, Blemmydes became a monk and retired to a monastery he built in Ephesus. He died in 1272.

Bibliography

  • Autobiographia (Curriculum Vitæ)
  • Epistula universalior
  • Epitome logica
  • Epitome physica
  • Expositio in Psalmos
  • De processione Spiritus Sancti
  • De regia pellice templo ejecta (On the Royal Concubine Expelled from the Temple)
  • De regis oficiis (On Royal Offices)
  • Laudatio Sancti Ioanni Evangelistae
  • Orationes de vitae fine (ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ, ΟΤΙ ΟΥΧ ΩΡΙΣΤΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΘΕΚΑΣΤΟΝ Η ΖΩΗ. ΔΙΑΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΟΣ Ή ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΟΡΟΥ)
  • Regia statua
  • Sermo ad monachos suos (Sermon to his monks)
  • De virtute et ascesi[2]

References

  1. ^ Christopher S. Wood, Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art. University Of Chicago Press, 2008
  2. ISBN 978-2-503-54412-0
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Sources

  • P. A. Agapitos, "Blemmydes, Laskaris and Philes," in Byzantinische Sprachkunst. Studien zur byzantinischen Literatur gewidmet Wolfram Hoerandner zum 65. Geburtstag. Hg. v. Martin Hinterberger und Elisabeth Schiffer. Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2007 (Byzantinisches Archiv, 20), 6–19; Bildtafel I-II

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