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Учителят и неговият ученик: Комитас и Симеон
The Teacher and His Student: Kometas and Simeon

Author(s): Hristo Trendafilov
Subject(s): Language studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Byzantium;

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the literary work of Kometas – an eminent philologist from the era of the early Macedonian Revival (during the second half of the 9th century) in Byzantium. Kometas was a professor in the Hellenic language grammar in the Magnaur school and he prepared new and edited transcripts of Homer’s classic poems – Iliad and Odyssey. For quite some time, in science it has been assumed that prospective Bulgarian king Simeon was Kometas’s student. From Kometas not only did he get an excellent education in the classical Greek language and literature, but he also mastered the methods for text editing and copying text from one language to another. Simeon applied successfully the education and rare skills acquired from the teacher Komitas in Bulgaria, as a monk, a supreme administrator and manager of thriving literary and cultural life at the end of 9th – beginning of 10th century.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 237-248
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian