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Romanos the Melodist
c. 490 – c. 556 · b. Emesa
DeaconTheologian
Quick facts
- Born
- c. 490, Emesa
- Died
- c. 556, Constantinople
- Region
- east
- Era
- post nicene
- Significance
- Notable(2/4)
- Also known as
- Romanos Melodos · Romanus Melodus · Romanos the Hymnographer
Highlights
- Main contribution
- Greek hymnographer of Syrian origin.
- Primary source
- Romanos, Cantica
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
- ODCC s.v. Romanus Melodus secondary
tradition connections(1)
- cited Ephrem the SyrianRomanos, 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)
External resources
📖WikipediaFull encyclopedic biography with footnotes and further reading.🔗WikidataStructured data hub linking to library catalogues, archives, and academic sources worldwide.🏛️WikisourcePublic-domain primary texts and translations (search).⛪Catholic Encyclopedia1913 reference — long entries, useful for less-known figures (search for Romanos the Melodist).