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On 11/28/11, Terri Morgan sent:
> Stephen the Younger (d. 764)...
Also Stephen the New (using another translation of the same epithet in Greek that underlies 'the Younger'). Some further depictions:
Stephen as depicted in the late thirteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1295) by the painters Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of the Peribleptos (now Sv. Climent Novi) in Ohrid:
http://tinyurl.com/3gjoubm
Stephen (at left; at right, St. Theodore the Stoudite) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7tksv3q
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/3wfbkoz
Stephen as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the south choir of the church of the Holy Ascension in the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/3clrwby
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/3nnj2y4
Stephen (at left; at right, St. Theodore the Stoudite) as depicted in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (1389; restored in 1971 and 1972) in the monastery church of St. Andrew at Matka in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3vkkwls
> Simeon Metaphrastes / the Logothete (d. c1000) was logothete (a high official) to Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus/ Porphyrogennetos. At the emperor's behest, he made a collection of stories of Byzantine saints that is comparable to the Golden Legend, earning the nickname “The Reteller”. He also wrote a chronicle, prayers, letters, and a collection of maxims.
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Though he seems to have been a high official this Simeon or Symeon (the latter form better represents the Greek original) is not known to have occupied one of the offices entitled Logothete. Calling him that is an artifact of a time when he was routinely identified with the somewhat earlier historian Symeon the Logothete. In recent scholarship the two are now differentiated. See (e.g.) the _Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium_ (1991), vol. 3, s.v. "Symeon Logothete" (pp. 1982-1983) and "Symeon Metaphrastes" (pp. 1983-1984).
Best,
John Dillon
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