Градъ амастридьскъ [...] ти црькъвъ зиждетъ v tzv. Metodovom Kánone na počesť sv. Dimitra Solúnskeho. Otázka datovania kánonu v kontexte lokalizácie chrámu
Градъ амастридьскъ [...] ти црькъвъ зиждетъ in the so Called Methodius’ Canon to Demetrius of Thessaloniki. The Question of the Canon’s Dating in the Context of Locating the Church

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the 2nd troparion of the 1st ode of the so called Methodius’ Canon to Demetrius of Thessaloniki, in which it is written that the marvelous miracles of Demetrius were told among barbarians, because he destroyed all the barbarians who came to the estate of Christ, the city of Amastris, where therefore a temple for Demetrius was built. The author examines the previous hypotheses about the location of the mentioned church: Amastris (J. Vašica, A. D. Voronov), Thessaloniki (L. Matejko) and Constantinople (B. Mirčeva). He relates these hypotheses to the existing knowledge about the location of the Amastrianum and the churches of St. Demetrius in Constantinople, about the transformations of the Demetrius cult in Byzantium, and to the data on the temples in the city of Amastris, which could correspond to the troparion. The author uses the rehabilitation of the Amastris hypothesis to approximate dating of the canon text and the original of its translation part to the second half of the 880s and to the first half of the 890s at the latest.

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