Unexpected Evidence concerning Gold Mining in Early Byzantium

Authors

  • Tatyana I. Afanas’eva Department of Letters, St.Petersburg State University
  • Sergey A. Ivanov Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

The prayer in the liturgy of Basil for those condemned to the mines, taken to be a relic of  the time of pagan persecutions, is shown by Slavonic mss. to have addressed a continuing practice of the Christian emperors themselves.

Author Biography

Tatyana I. Afanas’eva, Department of Letters, St.Petersburg State University

senior research associate of the Institute of Slavic Studies

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Published

2013-01-25

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Vol. 53 No. 1 (2013)

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