Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Primary Sources 13

Ignatios the Deacon
AP XV, 29–31; 39a ed. BECKBY 1957–58: IV, 282–284 and 288
iconoclastic epigrams ed. PG 99, 436–437 and 476
monody ed. CICCOLELLA 2000a: 42–
paraenetic alphabet ed. MÜLLER 1891: 321–
Adam and Eve ed. MÜLLER 1886: 28–
Lazarus and the Rich ed. STERNBACH 1897: 151–
fables nos. 1–45 ed. MÜLLER 1897: 264–
Ignatios the Headmaster
AP I, 109–114 ed. BECKBY 1957–58: I, 172–
John Geometres Kyriotes
Cr. 266, 1–352, 2 ed. CRAMER 1841: 266–
S. 2–13 ed. SAJDAK 1929: 196–
Sa. 1–14 ed. SAJDAK 1930–31: 530–
dispute ed. GRAUX 1880: 277–
hymns on the H. Virgin ed. SAJDAK 1931: 61–
Metaphrasis of the Odes ed. CRAMER 1841: 352–
Life of St. Panteleemon ed. STERNBACH 1892b: 3–41^6
John Kommerkiarios
Life of St. Mary of Egypt ed. STERNBACH 1900a: 319–
John of Damascus
Drama of Susanna ed. PG 136, 508 (two verses)
poem on the H. Trinity ed. CANART 2000: 153–
John of Melitene
epigrams 1–3 ed. HÖRANDNER 1970: 115–
epigram 4 ed. MAGUIRE 1996: 21, n. 49^7
epitaph 1 ed. LAUXTERMANN: Appendix III, 308–
epitaph 2 ed. ŠEVCENKO 1969–70: 191
John the Grammarian
iconoclastic epigrams ed. PG 99, 436 and 476
John the Syrian
see: Corpus of Monastic Epigrams
Kassia
A 1–160, B 1–27, C 1–97 ed. KRUMBACHER 1897a: 357–
M 1–9 ed. MYSTAKIDIS 1926: 317
Kometas
AP XV, 36–38; 40 ed. BECKBY 1957–58: IV, 288 and 290–
Kyriakos of Chonai
catanyctic alphabet ed. LAUXTERMANN 1999c: 101–
Leo Choirosphaktes
epigrams 1–4 ed. KOLIAS 1939: 130–
epitaph ed. MERCATI 1929–30: 60
monody ed. CICCOLELLA 2000a: 66–
epithalamia 1–2 ed. CICCOLELLA 2000a: 76–82 and 86–

(^6) There are also a number of epigrams and poems that may be attributed to Geometres,
but these ascriptions are not certain: see pp. 301, 303–304 and 315–316.
(^7) For the ascription of these six epigrams to John of Melitene, see Appendix III.