Какво е учил св. Григорий Акрагантски?
What did St. Gregory of Agrigento study?

Summary/Abstract: This article examines how Late Antique and Byzantine education is presented in hagiographic texts. The educational topos is attested in a great number of saints’ lives. In these texts, the continuity between Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the organization of the educational process and the disciplines studied is evident. The article explores the efforts of authors, translators, and copyists of hagiographic texts to adapt the pagan elements of the educational system of Antiquity to the Christian context. The Life of St. Gregory of Agrigento (BHG 707) presents an interesting example in which the disciplines studied by the young Gregory (which can be subsumed under the quadrivium) are presented descriptively. This created difficulties in understanding these disciplines for the Greek copyists, as well as for the Slavonic translator and Slavonic copyists. Within the Slavonic tradition of the text, the phrase τῶν ὑψηλῶν στερεῶν stands out as the most confusing and problematic, remaining untranslated in the initial Slavonic translation. Consequently, the Slavonic copyists employed various editing approaches to restore meaning to the text. Even for modern scholars, the educational topos presented in the Life of St. Gregory of Agrigento remains somewhat obscure. This article attempts to correct Berger’s inaccurate interpretation of two phrases in the text (τῶν ὑψηλῶν στερεῶν and τοὺς κύκλους τῶν ἐνιαυτῶν) as referring to disciplines of the quadrivium.

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