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Methodius of Olympus – one of the Greek sources of Kontakia by Romanos the Melodist

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Heszen A.

Classica Cracoviensia

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2013

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issue 16

63-79

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In this article the author compares Thecla’s Hymn from Methodius of Olympus’s Symposium with some kontakia by Romanos the Melodist. The analysis of a few stanzas of Thecla’s Hymn shows that this work can be a model for the kontakia. Methodius in his song gives examples of heroes of the Old and New Testament that sing a refrain. Romanos in their kontakia made a similar structure, the refrain is variously linked to stanzas and often spoken by different characters.

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The sinful woman as an example of metanoia in Byzantine poetry

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Heszen A.

Classica Cracoviensia

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2014

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issue 17

69-87

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A story about the sinful woman is told in the Gospel, where she is an example of deep repentance. The Byzantine authors often used this example in their poetic and homiletic works. In this article I juxtapose three genres of Byzantine poetry and I compare the literary motif of the sinful woman which appears in each of them. I choose the most representative genres of Byzantine poetry, as kontakion, kanon and troparion (or sticheron). In the first part I examine Romanos’ kontakion On the sinful woman, in the second one – Andrew of Crete’s the Megas Kanon and in the last part – Kassia’s troparion, commonly called On Mary Magdalene. The works are connected by the common theme, but they are different in respect of the form and the literary genre. In my paper I try to show how the same example of the Gospel parable is used in different ways in literary works.

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The Woman with the Flow of Blood in the Homily of Pseudo-Chrysostom and the Kontakion of Romanos the Melodist

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Dźwigała K. M.

Verbum Vitae

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2020

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vol. 38

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issue 2

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The piece considers the story of the woman with the flow of blood (haimorrhoousa) in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke as it is represented in two works: the homily of Pseudo-Chrysostom (PG 59,575-578) and Kontakion 12 (in the Oxford edition) of Romanos the Melodist. Interpretations of this episode from the gospels touch upon the issue of ritual purity in the Jewish law as well as the attitude of Christian authors toward female menstruation. The texts mentioned above are examined, along with statements from the Fathers of the Church on menstruation, in an attempt to answer the question of whether Christian authors embraced the idea that menstruating women should be excluded from social and religious life. The article shows that the attitude of Christian authors towards menstruating women was in fact generally positive.

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Romanos the Melodist as a teacher of the people in the struggle against heresies

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Dźwigała K. M.

Vox Patrum

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2017

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vol. 68

513-521

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Artykuł porusza kwestię dydaktycznej roli greckich hymnów kościelnych – kontakionów – w kontekście walki Kościoła w VI w. z herezjami. W kontakionach Romana Melodosa, będącego najwybitniejszym twórcą tego typu hymnów, a także hymnografem, dzięki któremu najprawdopodobniej powstał ten gatunek, znajdziemy liczne echa zmagań z herezjami przez kilka poprzedzających wieków aż do czasu życia poety. Św. Roman pisząc swe śpiewane homilie stawia sobie za cel obronę zgromadzonych w kościołach wiernych chrześcijan przed heretyckimi poglądami oraz pouczenie ich, jaka jest nauka Kościoła. Hymnograf stara się przedstawić trudne teologiczne zagadnienia językiem zrozumiałym dla przeciętnych wiernych, a także uczynić przekaz atrakcyjnym i zapadającym w pamięć. Artykuł na wybranych przykładach przedstawia herezje, które zwalczał Roman Melodos oraz wykorzystywane przez poetę środki.

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The article raises an issue of the didactic role of the Greek ecclesiastical hymns – the kontakia – in the context of the struggle of the Church in the sixth century against heresies. In the kontakia of Romanos the Melodist, who was the most prominent author of the hymns of that genre and probably a creator of the genre, we find numerous echoes of the struggles against heresies from the past centuries and from the lifetime of the poet. St. Romanos, when he writes his sung homilies, aims at the defence of the faithful assembled in the church against heretical views and at the instructing them what is the teaching of the Church. The hymnographer tries to present the difficult theological issues using the language understandable for the common Christians and make the hymn more attractive and memorable. The article shows on the examples the heresies against that Romanos the Melodist struggled and the measures he used.

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Wyobraźnia i zmysły w nabożeństwie bizantyjskim w VI w. na przykładzie hymnów Romana Melodosa

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Dźwigała K. M.

Liturgia Sacra. Liturgia - Musica - Ars

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2016

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vol. 22

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issue 48

499-511

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W kontakiach Romana Melodosa odnajdziemy wiele informacji wskazujących na to, w jaki sposób postrzegano nabożeństwo chrześcijańskie w Konstantynopolu w VI w. Na podstawie lektury tekstów możemy zaobserwować, że śpiewanie hymnu miało na celu nie tylko to, aby opowiedzieć wątek biblijny, lecz aby odegrać go, jak gdyby znów miał miejsce. Celem poety było zaangażowanie umysłów i ciał słuchaczy, by pomóc im wyobrazić sobie, że są uczestnikami opowieści biblijnej. Taki stosunek do chrześcijańskiego nabożeństwa jest związany ze zmianą w odbiorze liturgii bizantyjskiej w VI w.

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In the kontakia of Romanos the Melodist we find information about the attitude to Christian service in the sixth-century Constantinople. Reading the texts we can see that singing the hymn was not only to tell the biblical story but to enact it as if it took place again. The purpose of the poet was to involve the mind and the body of the audience to help them imagine that they take part in the story. This attitude to Christian worship is associated with the change in perception of the Byzantine liturgy in the sixth century.

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Methodius of Olympus – one of the Greek sources of Kontakia by Romanos the Melodist

The sinful woman as an example of metanoia in Byzantine poetry

The Woman with the Flow of Blood in the Homily of Pseudo-Chrysostom and the Kontakion of Romanos the Melodist

Romanos the Melodist as a teacher of the people in the struggle against heresies

Wyobraźnia i zmysły w nabożeństwie bizantyjskim w VI w. na przykładzie hymnów Romana Melodosa