Simeon Metaphrastes

Simeon Metaphrastes

▪ Byzantine hagiographer
born c. 900, probably Constantinople
died after 984

      Byzantine hagiographer whose Mēnologion, a 10-volume collection of the lives of early Eastern saints, achieved wide popularity.

      Of Simeon's life it is known only that he held an administrative post in the Byzantine civil service and that toward the end of his life he became a monk. Several commentaries on Eastern theologians and other works attributed to Simeon are probably not genuine.

      Most of the texts incorporated into the Mēnologion, which is arranged according to saints' feast days, had existed earlier, but their stylistic quality varied widely. Simeon gave them a stylistic revision (metaphrasis), and his version became so popular that the older collections ceased to be copied; hence many lives of saints were lost.

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