Narration

Title(s):
  • Narration
  • Διήγησις
    (Diēgēsis, Narration)
  • Report
  • Λόγος περὶ τῶν ἀναιρεθέντων ὑπὸ τῶν βαρβάρων ἐν τῶι Σινᾶι ὁρεῖ κα ἐν τῆς Ῥαιθοῦ ἁγίων πατέρων
    (Logos peri tōn anairethentōn hupo tōn barbarōn tōi Sinai horei kai en tēs Raithou hagiōn paterōn, A report concerning the holy fathers slaughtered by the barbarians at Mount Sinai and at Raithou)
Period covered:
370-380
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Novel
  • Report
Remarks:
The work purports to be an eyewitness account of events of the 370s, but may date to the sixth century. The original was composed in Greek, but there exist Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic and Georgian versions. Two different recensions exist.
Edition - Translation:
  • D. Tsamēs, K. Katsanēs (2003) Το Μαρτυρολόγιον του Σινά. Περιέχει: κείμενα και μεταφράσεις περί των αγώνων, παλαισμάτων και μαρτυρίων των αναιρεθέντων Αγίων Πατέρων εν τω θεοβαδίστω όρει Σινά και τη Σιναϊτική ερήμω ίνα μιμησάμενοι την αρετήν των μαρτύρων τούτων κάκει των στεφάνων δυνηθώμεν αυτοίς κοινωνήσαι. Thessaloniki.
  • D. Caner, S. Brock, R. Price (2010) History and hagiography from the late antique Sinai including translations of Pseudo-Nilus' Narrations, Ammonius' Report on the slaughter of the monks of Sinai and Rhaithou, and Anastasius of Sinai's Tales of the Sinai Fathers (Translated texts for historians, 53). Liverpool.
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Bibliography:
  • (1979) Clavis patrum Graecorum (CPG) 6088