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Headword:
*xristo/dwros
Adler number: chi,525
Translated headword: Christodoros, Christodorus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Paniskos, from Koptos,[1] a city of Egypt; epic poet. He was at his peak in the times of the emperor Anastasios.[2] He wrote an
Isaurika in six books; it contains the sack of
Isauria by the emperor Anastasios. [He also wrote] an epic called
Land of Constantinople in 12 books, an epic called
Land of Thessalonike in 25 books,
Land of Nakle (a city near Heliopolis where the so-called Aphaka are),[3]
Land of Miletos in Ionia,
Land of Tralles,
Land of Aphrodisias,
Description of the Statues in [the baths of] Zeuxippos [at Constantinople],[4] and many other works.
Greek Original:*xristo/dwros, *pani/skou, a)po\ *koptou= po/lews th=s *ai)gu/ptou, e)popoio/s. h)/kmazen e)pi\ tw=n *)anastasi/ou tou= basile/ws xro/nwn. e)/grayen *)isaurika\ e)n bibli/ois e(/c: e)/xei de\ th\n *)isauri/as a(/lwsin th\n u(po\ *)anastasi/ou tou= basile/ws genome/nhn: *pa/tria *kwnstantinoupo/lews e)pikw=s bibli/a ib#, *pa/tria *qessaloni/khs e)pikw=s bibli/a ke#, *pa/tria *na/klhs: e)/sti de\ po/lis peri\ *(hliou/polin, e)n h(=| ta\ kalou/mena *)/afaka: *pa/tria *milh/tou th=s *)iwni/as, *pa/tria *tra/llewn, *pa/tria *)afrodisia/dos, *)/ekfrasin tw=n e)n tw=| *zeuci/ppw| a)galma/twn: kai\ a)/lla polla/.
Notes:
Cameron (below) 475 argues that Christodorus is likely to have been a pagan, in spite of his name (which indicates only that he had Christian parents), because, besides the works mentioned here, he wrote a poem "On the pupils of the great
Proclus".
[1] The ruins are in the center of the present-day city of Qift.
[2] 491-518 CE. (See
alpha 2077 and web address 1.)
[3] See
alpha 4548 and
nu 18.
[4] Second book of the
Palatine Anthology; 416 hexameters; cf.
zeta 37.
References:
P. Baumgarte. De Christodoro Poeta Thebano. Bonn, 1881
Alan Cameron, "Wandering Poets: A Literary Movement in Byzantine Egypt," Historia 14 (1965) 469-509
Sarah Bassett. The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 51-8; 160-185
E. Heitsch, Die griechischen Dichterfragmente der roemischen Kaiserzeit (Goettingen 1964) 48
R. Stupperich, "Das Statuenprogramm in der Zeuxippos-Thermen. Uberlegungen zur Beschreibung der Christodorus von Koptos," IstMitt 32: 210-235
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: art history; biography; chronology; epic; geography; history; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 5 December 2002@16:03:43.
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