Konstantinos Kephalas
Konstantinos Kephalas (Κεφαλᾶς) was probably "Protopapas" in 917, the highest spiritual dignitary at the Byzantine imperial court . As a literary educated and scholar, he played an outstanding role in the preservation and transmission of ancient Greek epigram poetry .
Around the year 900 he united, perhaps on behalf of Emperor Leo VI. , the collections of Greek epigrams available to him, including the wreath of Meleager , the wreath of Philip and the Cyclus of Agathias , and supplemented these holdings, among other things, with the collection of metric inscriptions. This anthology of the cephalas, which has not survived in the original, formed the basis for the collection of the Anthologia Palatina , which a later editor made with further additions. The anthology of the Planudes also goes back to the collection of the Kephalas.
literature
- Richard Reitzenstein : Constantinus 13) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, Col. 1032.
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| SURNAME | Konstantinos Kephalas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Κεφαλᾶς; Cephalas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | orthodox theologian at the imperial court of Byzantium |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 9th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 917 |