E06640: Greek version of the Martyrdom of *Shirin (Persian convert to Christianity and martyr under Khosrau I, ob. 559, S02491). Skeleton entry

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posted on 2018-09-27, 00:00 authored by Nikolaos

Greek version of the Martyrdom of Shirin (BHG 1637)

We have not examined this text, nor compared it to stories of the martyrdom in other languages. It is a translation dated around 593-609, based on a Martyrdom originally written in Syriac in the reign of Khosrau I of Sassanid Persia (between 559 and 579), but the original is not extant.

Note that translations of hagiographical literature into other ancient languages are not as a rule recorded in the Cult of Saints database, unless there is evidence to suggest that the translation dates from the 7th century or earlier.

History

Evidence ID

E06640

Saint Name

Shirin, Persian convert to Christianity and martyr under Khosrau I, ob. 559 : S02491

Saint Name in Source

Σιρή

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Shirin_Persian_convert_to_Christianity_and_martyr_under_Khosrau_I_ob_559/13736119

Type of Evidence

Literary - Hagiographical - Accounts of martyrdom

Language

Greek

Evidence not before

593

Evidence not after

609

Source

For the manuscript tradition, see: http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre/17801/ For the edition, see Bibliography.

Bibliography

Text: Devos, P., "Sainte Sirin, martyre sous Khosrau Ier Anosarvan," Analecta Bollandiana 64 (1946), 112-131. Further reading: Detoraki, M., "Greek Passions of the Martyrs in Byzantium," in: S. Efthymiadis (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography II: Genres and Contexts (Farnham, 2014), 75-76.