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Homilies

St Photius the Great, tr. Mango, 1958

Chapter 1

The present volume offers an English translation of the Homilies of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople (856–867, 877–886). The translation of sixteen of the Homilies is based on the edition by Aristarches; that of the remaining two on the edition by G. P. Kournoutos and B. Laourdas. The work is a partial result of a more comprehensive project on Photius’ writings initiated by the late Professor A. M. Friend, Jr., former Director of Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. It has not proved feasible to publish a critical edition of the Greek text at this time. Care has been taken, however, by Dr. Mango to check all of Aristarches’ emendations, as well as other doubtful passages in his text, against the available manuscripts; wherever the translation here offered departs from the text in the above-mentioned editions, justification is supplied in the footnotes.

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