Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: One of the scenes of martyrdom that Ignatios the Deacon rhetorically records in the iconographic programme he describes in his Life of Patriarch Tarasios (BHG 1698) is of a martyr who performed “his funeral dance in public without entrails”. Identifying this unnamed figure with St Mamas gave the author the opportunity to rehearse the saint’s iconography in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods, with special focus on the depiction of his martyrdom. The personal perspective from which Ignatios viewed his task in rhetorically elaborating on this particular iconographic programme is also considered.
DOI: 10.12681/dchae.32381
Institution: Open University of Cyprus
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402279131