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The main focus of Byzantine devotion was the Virgin Mary, but certain other sacred figures were prominent in Byzantine spiritual life as well. A very popular religious figure, for example, was Theodore Teron, the warrior saint traditionally represented with a dark pointed beard and either riding a horse or slaying a beast. On the intaglio gemstone illustrated here (1999.325.227), he is shown slaying a multiheaded dragon with a long lance. The composition of this scene is reminiscent of classical renditions of Herakles slaying the Hydra. |
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Annie Labatt
Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Citation for this page
Labatt, Annie. "Saints and Other Sacred Byzantine Figures". In Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/snts/hd_snts.htm (October 2004)
Suggested Further Reading
Brown, Peter. Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Farmer, David Hugh. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Hackel, Sergei, ed. The Byzantine Saint: University of Birmingham Fourteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. London: Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, 1981. Kazhdan, Alexander, and Nancy Patterson Sevcenko. "Catherine of Alexandria." In The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Kazhdan, Alexander, and Nancy Patterson Sevcenko. "Michael." In The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Kazhdan, Alexander, and Nancy Patterson Sevcenko. "Theodore Teron." In The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Seiber, Julia. The Urban Saint in Early Byzantine Social History. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1977. Vassilaki, Maria, ed. The Mother of God: Representations of the Virgin in Byzantine Art. Milan: Skira Editore, 2000.
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