The Life of Saint Pankratios of Taormina, : Greek text, English translation and commentary.

• Superior document: Byzantina Australiensia ; Volume 22
• Author: Cynthia Stallman-Pacitti (Author); John Bernard Burke (Editor)
• TeilnehmendeR: Burke, John 1945-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Byzantina Australiensia 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (538 pages)
• Notes: Outgrowth of the author's thesis (D.Phil.--Oxford, 1986).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page /; Editor’s Note /; Preface /; Abbreviations /; Introduction /; Conspectus Siglorum /; Explanation of the Apparatus Criticus /; Text and Translation /; Βίος τοῦ ἐν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἡμῶν Παγκρατίου ἀρχιπροέδρου τῆς Ταυρομενιτῶν πόλεως, συγγραφεὶς ὑπὸ Εὐαγρίου τοῦ αὐτοῦ μαθητοῦ καὶ οἰκέτου /; Appendix /; Back Matter --; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900436644X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

The Life of St Pankratios of Taormina describes the mission and martyrdom of St Pankratios, a disciple of the Apostle Peter sent to evangelize Taormina as its first bishop, and purports to have been written by St Pankratios’ successor, Euagrios. The text was composed in the early eighth century and is of Sicilian provenance. The Life contributes to our understanding of the Byzantine attitude to the past and of the novelistic approach to hagiography. It touches on the topography of Sicily and Calabria, ecclesiastical arrangements in Sicily, civil and military administration, the Sicilian language question, church decoration, liturgical rites, book production, and the attitude to religious images.