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1 ROCHOW, Studien zu der Person, den Werken und dem Nachlebender Dichterin Kassia (Berlin, 1967) (Berliner Byzantinische Arbeiten 38) 5–19.
2
AFINO-GENOV, The Brid-Show of Theophilos: Some Notes on the Sourse // Eranos (ActaPhilologica Suecana)
5 (2000) 5–13.3
LAUXTERMANN, The Byzantine Epigram in the Ninth and Tenth
Centuries. A Generic Study of Epigrams an Some Other Forms of Poetry (Amsterdam,
1994) 109.
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5
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6 7
8 9
4 5
4 (2004) 497–511.6 AFINOGENOV, The Bride-S
7
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Byz W. T. TREADGOLD, The
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8 L. RYDÉN, The Bride-shows at the Byzantine Court — History or Fiction? //
Eranos 9 Ibid. 179–180.
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10 RYDÉN, The Bride-shows at the Byzantine Court... 188.11 Ibid. 190.12 Ibid. 191.13
RYDÉN
14
SORLIN, La plus belle ou la meilleure? Note sur les concours debeauté à Byzance et dans la Russie Moscovite des XVIe–XVIIe siècles // .
Mélanges offerts à Hélène Ahrweiler (Paris, 1998) (Byzantina sorbonensia 16) T. II.
635–650,
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15 16 17
18
19
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Bride-Shows 15 RYDÉN
DE BOOR
16 RYDÉN, The Bride-shows… 179.17 Ibid. 180.18
The Life
of St. Philaretos the Merciful Written by his Grandson Niketas / Critic. Ed., Intr.,
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22
23 24 25
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29 30 31
28 DAGRON, Nés dans la pourpre… 137–140.29 FOURMY, LEROY, La vie de S. Philarète... 96.30 8
(1
. 71; Proso-
pographie der Mittelbyzantinischen Zeit. Erste Abteilung (641–867) / Ed. R.-J. LILIE,
C. LUDWIG, TH. PRATSCH, I. ROCHOW Michel le Syrien, Chronique / Ed. J. B. CHABOT BEKKER ThCont
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31 VINSON, The Life of Theodora and the Rhetoric of the Byzantine Bride Show //
J Ö B
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33
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32 E. W. BROOKS, The Marriage of the Emperor Theophilos // BZ 10 (1901) 540–545.
33 RYDÉN
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RYDÉN
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39 40
821-È ËÎË 830-È?
41
42 39 40
VI
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41 BROOKS, The Marriage of the Emperor Theophilos…; J. B. BURY, A History of
the Eastern Roman Empire (London, 1912) 81, 465–467; L. BRÉHIER, Vie et mort de
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49 50
49 F. , Les sources de Génésios et du Continuateur de Théophane pour
l’histoire de Michel II (820–829) // BZ 31/2 (1961) 257–271.50
II, 8;
ThCont 47:16–48:
,
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KÖPSTEIN, Zur Erhebung des Thomas // Studien zum 8.
und 9. Jahrhundert in Byzanz / Hrsg. H. Köpstein, F. Winkelmann
MANGO, The Liquidation of
Iconoclasm and the Patriarch Photios // Iconoclasm. Papers given at the Ninth Spring
Symposium of Byzantine Studies. University of Birmingham. March 1975 / Ed. A. Bry-
er, J. Herrin
PG PG PHOTIUS, Bibliothèque / Ed. R. HENRY
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52 53
–ÓʉÂÌË ‘ÂÓÙË·
54 55
56
52 TREADGOLD, The Problem of the Marriage… 336.53
54 HERRIN, Women in Purple. Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (London, 2001)
282, n. 87.55 II, 5; ThCont 44:11).56
II, 7; ThCont I, 1; ThCont
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57 58
ÓÓ̇ˆËˇ
59 60 ) 61
57 58
TREADGOLD, ThCont
3–24).59 -
60 TREADGOLD, The Problem of the Marriage… 328–329.61 -
(Theo-
phanis Chronographia / Ed. C. de BOOR (Lipsiae, 1883) 480:11–13).
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62 63 64 65
∆ÂϘÛÊÌ˚È ÚËÍÎËÌ
66
´–„ÂÌÚÒÚ‚Óª ≈‚ÙÓÒËÌ˚
67
62
- (Theo-
phanis Chronographia... 494:26–28).63
64 BEKKER CSHByz
LeoGram) 213:19–21.65 TREADGOLD, The Problem of the Marriage… 328, n. 17.66 Ibid. 329.67 LeoGram 213:6.
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68 69 70
71 72
73 74 75
68 BURY, A History of the Eastern Roman Empire… 120; TREADGOLD, The Problem
of the Marriage… 336, 339.69
70 II, 8; ThCont 49:12–15.71 TREADGOLD, The Problem of the Marriage… 339.72 Constantini Porphyrogeniti imperatoris, De ceremoniis aulae Byzantinae libru
duo / Rec. I. I. REISKE De cer ) Vol. I. 647–648.73 De cer I. 647.74 III, 1; ThCont 86:8–12.75 III, 5; ThCont 90:2–91:10.
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76
‘ÂÓÙËΠ̇ ÏÓÌÂÚ‡ı ÃËı‡Ë· II
77
76 III, 1; ThCont TREADGOLD,
HERRIN
III, 2; ThCont
III, 3, ThCont , 8, 42–44; ThCont
III, 10; ThCont RYDÉN
77 TREADGOLD, The Problem of the Marriage… 336.
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78 79
80 81
82 83 84
78
TREADGOLD, The Problem of the Marriage… 336–337.79
GRIERSON, BELLINGER, Catalogue of the Byzan-
tine Coins… Part 1. Plates XX–XXI.80 81 82 83 84 I, 10; ThCont
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ƒÓ˜¸ ‘ÂÓÙË· Ã‡Ëˇ Ë Â ·‡Í Ò ¿ÎÂÍÒÂÂÏ ÃÛÒÂÎÂ
85
(840).86
87 88
PG TREADGOLD,
85 GRIERSON, BELLINGER, Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins… Part 1. 411–451.86 TREADGOLD, The Problem of the Marriage… 333, 340–341.87 Ibid. 330–331.88
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.90 91
92 -
93 94
ÓÌÒÚ‡ÌÚËÌ, Ò˚Ì ‘ÂÓÙË·
95
89 BURY,
A History of the Eastern Roman Empire… 466.90
(GRIERSON, BELLINGER, Catalogue of the Byzantine
Coins… Part 1. De cer DIKIGOROPOULOS, The Constantinopolitan solidi of Theophi-
lus… 353).91
TREADGOLD, The Chronological accuracy… 174.92 De cer I. 648.93 De cer I. 643.94
GRIERSON (with
an additional note by C. MANGO and I. ), The Tombs and Obits of the Byzan-
tine Emperors (337–1042) // DOP 95 TREADGOLD, The Problem of the Marriage… 340.
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96 97 98 99
´—ÂÏÂÈ̇ˇª ÏÓÌÂÚ‡
100
96 III, 4; ThCont 88:8.97 GRIERSON, BELLINGER
98
99
DIKIGOROPOULOS, The Constantinopolitan solidi of
Theophilus… 360).100
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101 102
103
821
101 GRIERSON, BELLINGER, Catalogue of
the Byzantine Coins… Part 1. 407.102
103 III, 40; ThCont HERRIN,
Women in Purple… 282, n. 87.
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829, 2
836
839
Œ ˜ÂÏ ‘ÂÓÙËÎ ÒÔÓÒËÎ ‡ÒÒ˲?
104
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105 106
105 AFINOGENOV, The Bride-Show of Theophilos… 11.106
Michel Psellos, Chronographie ou histoire d’un siècle de
Byzance (976–1077) / Ed. E. RENAULD ,
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107
108
109
…
110
111 112
107 108 PG 109
PG 50. Col. 793.110 PG
111 ROCHOW
112
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114
… …
… … … … …
… …
113 TRIPOLITIS, Kassia: the Legend, the
Woman, and her Work (New York —London, 1992) 46.114 PG 50. Col. 793–795.
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115
116
117 118
115 PG 50. Col. 795.116
117 AFINOGENOV, The Brid-Show of Theophilos… 11.118
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120 121
119 ( TRIPOLITIS, Kassia... 124, . 11
120
Theodori Studitae Epistulae / Ed. G. FATOUROS ROCHOW
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121 .
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122
123
124
122 PÉTRIDÈS, Cassia //
123 124
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125
- //
31 (1932) 94; 251–252; ROCHOW III, 16; ThCont LeoGram
III, 4;
ThCont HERRIN
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SUMMARY
Tatiana A. Senina (Nun Kassia)St-Petersbourg
DIALOGUE BETWEEN THEOPHILUS AND KASSIA:LITERARY FICTION OR REALITY?
The paper deals with the story of the bride-show for the Emperor Theophilus
and the possible role in this story of the hymnographer Kassia. L. Rydén’s opinion
that such bride-shows for the royal sons in the 9th century are fictions is revised. It
is most likely that such stories told by the chroniclers have some real facts behind
them. In this connection, a new hypothesis of the reasons of composition of the
Vita of Philarete the Merciful is put forward. The chronology of the life of the
Emperor Theophilus in general and the date of his bride-show in particular are
revised as well. It was shown that the dates of his life proposed by W. Treadgold
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are accepted by many scholars rather uncritically while, in fact, they are far from
being well-founded. According to the present analysis of the sources, including
the numismatic data and the hymnography, Theophilus’ bride-show is to be dated
by 821 and Kassia’s participation is to be admitted. The fact that dialogue be-
tween Theophilus and Kassia, as reported by Symeon Logothetus, contains a ver-
batim quote from the Homily on Annunciation by John Chrysostome, is not an
argument to take the whole story as fiction ( pace D. Afinogenov and Yu. Kaza-
chkov) because this homily was widely known in this time and is quoted, for
instance, in an anti-iconoclast treatise of the Patriarch Nicephorus and, that is
most important, by Kassia herself in her sticheira on Annunciation. Finally, it was
attempted to reveal the meaning of the interchange between Theophilus and Kas-
sia that was traditionally interpreted as an attempt of an orthodox girl to hurt theiconoclastic emperor.