medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Sunday, January 10, 2010, at 10:31 pm, I wrote:
> 2) Paul of Thebes (d. ca. 345, supposedly)...
> After a journey in which A[thony of Egypt] encountered an hippocentaur and a faun or
> satyr (the former perhaps diabolic, the latter certainly so) he found
> the one-hundred-and-thirteen-year-old P. at his cave, wearing a
> garment stitched together from palm leaves. They conversed, were fed
> by a raven (cf. 3 Reg 1-7), and on the following day P. announced that
> his time on earth is at an end.
Er, was at an end [in an earlier state this narrative had been in the historic present].
> 3) Gregory of Nyssa (d. 395).
> G. (at right; St. Philotheus of Sinai at right) in the
> eleventh-century mosaics of the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios
> Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
> http://byzicons.net/album/albums/uploads/osios%20loukas/30.jpg
Oops! As the identifying legend makes perfectly clear, the figure at right (and Philotheus is at left) is Dionysius the Areopagite.
>
> G. in an unsourced mosaic (eleventh[?]-century):
> http://www.gregor-von-nyssa.de/gregor1.htm
> Can anyone identify this by location?
In view of this figure's similarity to the foregoing, I might guess that it's at Hosios Loukas. Is it?
Apologies for the errors.
-JD
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