“No one can escape God”: A filicidal beneficial tale from early Byzantium

John Moschos includes the story of a female filicide in his Spiritual Meadow. After exploring the authorial self of Moschos, this article discusses the relation between this beneficial story and the biblical book of Jonah on the one hand, and Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis and Medea on the other. Fin...

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Auteur principal: Vasileiou, Fotis (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: De Gruyter [2018]
Dans: Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Année: 2018, Volume: 111, Numéro: 1, Pages: 135-156
Sujets non-standardisés:B Patristique
B Histoire
B Theologie und Religion
B Altertumswissenschaften
B Études byzantines
B Diverses
B Historische Epochen
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Résumé:John Moschos includes the story of a female filicide in his Spiritual Meadow. After exploring the authorial self of Moschos, this article discusses the relation between this beneficial story and the biblical book of Jonah on the one hand, and Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis and Medea on the other. Finally, the story is examined in the wider framework of the seventh century, in an attempt to understand John Moschos’ viewpoint on his own time.null
ISSN:1868-9027
Contient:Enthalten in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/bz-2018-0006