The Image of Light in the “Ekphrasis of the Hagia Sophia” by Paul the Silentiary

The paper explores the imagery of light in a poem by Paul the Silentiary (6th century) “Ekphrasis of the Hagia Sophia” (and in an adjoining poem “Ekphrasis of the Ambo”) written by order of the Emperor Justinian in 562 on the occasion of the re-consecration of the Church. This problem is more often...

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Main Author: Tatiana L. Aleksandrova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2023-03-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:https://studlit.ru/images/2023-8-1/04_Aleksandrova_82-99.pdf
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