Depiction of the Martyrdom of St. Demetrius in Medieval Greek Literary Sources.
This paper discusses two important Christian metaphors, which are prominent in medieval hagiography: the striving athlete of Christ and the wreath-bearing martyr and victor or stephanites. The two terms are inevitably inter-related, and in this paper their commonalities and theological and poetical...
| Publicado en: | Pennsylvania Literary Journal (2151-3066) Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 184 - 203 |
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