Theodore Metochites
Theodore Metochites | |
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Chora Church to Christ Pantocrator. | |
| Mesazōn of the Byzantine Empire | |
| In office 1305–1328 | |
| Monarch | Andronikos II Palaiologos |
| Preceded by | Nikephoros Choumnos |
| Succeeded by | Alexios Apokaukos |
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| Born | 1270 Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)[1] |
| Died | 13 March 1332 Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) |
Theodore Metochites (Greek: Θεόδωρος Μετοχίτης; 1270–1332) was a Byzantine Greek statesman, author, gentleman philosopher, and patron of the arts. From c. 1305 to 1328 he held the position of personal adviser (mesazōn) to emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos.
Life
Metochites was born in
Metochites' political career culminated in 1321, when he was invested as
Metochites' fortunes were, however, linked with his emperor's. After a few years of intermittent civil war, Andronicus II was overthrown in 1328 by his own grandson,
Works
Metochites' extant œuvre comprises 20 Poems in dactylic hexameter, 18 orations (Logoi), Commentaries on Aristotle's writings on natural philosophy, an introduction to the study of Ptolemaic astronomy (Stoicheiosis astronomike), and 120 essays on various subjects, the Semeioseis gnomikai. Many of these works are still unedited.
Editions with English translations:
- Featherstone, J. M. 2000. Theodore Metochites’s Poems 'To Himself'. Introduction, Text, and Translation. Vienna. ISBN 3-7001-2853-3
Reviewed by Lazaris, S. 2002. "Jeffrey Michael Featherstone (Introduction, Text and Translation), Theodore Metochites’s poems 'to Himself' [Byzantina vindobonensia, XXIII], Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2000", Scriptorium 56, p. 328*-330*([1])
- Hult, K. 2002. Theodore Metochites on Ancient Authors and Philosophy: Semeioseis gnomikai 1–26 & 71. A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, Notes, and Indexes. With a Contribution by B. Bydén. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 65. Gothenburg. ISBN 91-7346-434-1
- Hult, K. 2016. Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome. Semeioseis gnomikai 27–60. A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, Notes, and Indexes. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 70. Gothenburg. ISBN 978-91-7346-889-3, [2]
- Wahlgren, S. 2018. Theodore Metochites' Sententious Notes: Semeioseis gnomikai 61–70 & 72–81. A critical edition with introduction, translation, notes, and indexes.Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 71. Gothenburg. ISBN 978-91-7346-993-7 [3]
- Xenophontos, S. 2020. On Morals or Concerning Education. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 61. Cambridge, MA. ISBN 9780674244634
Editions without translation:
- Bydén, B. 2003. Theodore Metochites' Stoicheiosis astronomike and the study of natural philosophy and mathematics in early Palaiologan Byzantium. 2nd rev. ed. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 66. Göteborg. ISBN 91-7346-459-7
- Polemis, I. D. 2015, Theodorus Metochita. Carmina (Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca 83), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. ISBN 978-2-503-56456-2
- Polemis, I. D. and E. Kaltsogianni. 2019. Orationes. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana 2031. Berlin. ISBN 978-3-11-044099-7
See also
Footnotes
- ^ K. Staikos, The History of the Library in Western Civilization: From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion, Oak Knoll Press, 2007, p. 427
References
- Beck, H.-G. 1952. Theodoros Metochites: Die Krise des byzantinischen Weltbildes im 14. Jahrhundert. Munich.
- Ševčenko, I. 1962. La vie intellectuelle et politique à Byzance sous les premiers Paléologues: Études sur la polémique entre Théodore Métochite et Nicéphore Choumnos. Corpus Bruxellense Historiae Byzantinae. Subsidia 3. Brussels.
- Ševčenko, I. 1975. Theodore Metochites, the Chora, and the Intellectual Trends of His Time. In Underwood, P. A., ed., The Kariye Djami, vol. 4, Studies in the Art of the Kariye Djami and Its Intellectual Background, London (OCLC 24220728.)
- de Vries-van der Velden, E. 1987. Théodore Métochite: Une réévaluation. Amsterdam. ISBN 90-70265-58-3
- Bydén, B. 2003. Theodore Metochites' Stoicheiosis astronomike and the study of natural philosophy and mathematics in early Palaiologan Byzantium. 2nd rev. ed. Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 66. Göteborg. ISBN 91-7346-459-7
Lauritzen, Frederick. Theodore Metochites: Statesman and Philosopher, 1270-1332. Steubenville, OH, Franciscan University Press, 2024.
External links
- Theodore Metochites at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Haramundanis, Katherine (2007). "Metochites [Metoxites], Theodore [Theodoros, Theoleptos]". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. p. 776. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)
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