Greek hymnographer of Syrian origin. Composed dozens of kontakia for the Constantinopolitan liturgy under Justinian I. Considered the greatest of the Byzantine hymnographers.
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Sources for biography
Romanos, Cantica primary
Romanos the Melodist, Kontakia (Sancti Romani Melodi Cantica, ed. Maas and Trypanis) primary
Romanos, a Syrian-born deacon writing in Greek at Constantinople under Anastasius and Justinian, draws heavily on Ephrem's Syriac madrashe and memre in form and theology. Direct quotation is not preserved; the dependence is the modern scholarly consensus.
Petersen, The Diatessaron and Ephrem Syrus as Sources of Romanos the Melodist (CSCO 475, 1985) · Brock, From Ephrem to Romanos (Variorum 1999)
