Légende et fonds historique de la Passion des 60 ou 63 martyrs de Jérusalem
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Yannopoulos, Panayotis
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Journal article
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French
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text (article)
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Asociación Cultural Hispano-Helénica 2011
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Erytheia: Revista de estudios bizantinos y neogriegos ISSN 0213-1986 Nº. 32, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Homenaje a Dimitris Papagueorguíu), pags. 159-186
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Two hagiographical texts speak of 70 Byzantine pilgrims who, during the reign of Leo III, visited the Holy Land, where they were captured by Arabs; 63 from them were martyred. Since the historicity of the facts is in question, all information given by the two texts is disqualified. The analysis shows that the first of these texts, considered anonymous, was written in Syriac by John of Caesarea in the middle of the 8th c., shortly after it was translated into Greek by the care of a monk also named John. This text is oriented iconoclast. The other, iconodule, is composed by the monk Simeon in the 10th c. The former gives more information about relations between the Byzantine Empire and the Caliphate after the Arab defeat before the walls of Constantinople in 718. On the contrary, the writing of Simeon is only intended to refute the idea of the 63 iconoclasts martyrs and thus its historical value is almost zero.