medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, June 20, 2007, at 11:55 pm, I wrote:
> Today (20. June) is the feast day of:
> 2) Methodius of Olympia (d. early 4th cent.?).
Er, Methodius of _Olympus_
> Apart from his
> surviving writings, we have little reliable information about the
> theologian M. Jerome says (_De viribus illustribus_, 83) that he was
> bishop of Olympus in Lycia (today's village of Cirali in Turkey's
> Antalya province), that he was later bishop of Tyre, and that he was
> martyred at Euboean Chalcis in a recent persecution. The information
> about M.'s having been bishop of Tyre is unlikely to be correct. That
> about his having been bishop of Lycia, though repeated by the
> ecclesiastical historian Socrates, could also be false. But it is
> widely accepted as factual.
Rather, That about his having been bishop of _Olympus_. There were several sees in Lycia (e.g. Myra, the home of St. Nicholas).
> The _De sectis_ attributed to Leontius of
> Byzantium calls M. bishop of Patara, a designation subsequently
> adopted for him in Byzantine synaxaries.
Patara was anciently Lycia's chief port. An illustrated, English-language page on it is here:
http://www.lycianturkey.com/lycian_sites/patara.htm
And a photo gallery from the official site of the excavations is here:
http://www.pataraexcavations.com/Hava%20foto.html
Best again,
John Dillon
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