International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

HAGIOGRAPHY ‒ PART 1
Chairs: 
Marina Détoraki-Flusin, Georges Sidéris
Anna Kryukova
, 
An Earlier Unknown Version of the 
Vita of Xenophon, His Wife Mary, and Their Children
Arcadious 
and John
from the Collection of Manuscripts in the Russian State Library (270/Ia, N 68)
Pablo Adrián Cavallero
, 
Le changement de version. 
De la version longue à la version brève de la 
Vie de Jean l’Aumônier
, dû à Léonce de Néapolis
Guido Venturini
, 
The Syriac 
Life of John the Merciful
and Its Possible Contribution to the Edition of the Greek Text
Olga N. Izotova
, 
A Hagiographer Monk Sabas (ΙΧ C.) as a Participant of the Image Debates
Eirini Afentoulidou
, 
The 
Life of Saint Basil the Younger
(BHG 264) and Philip Monotropos’ Dioptra: 
An Investigation of Possible Influence
Mariafrancesca Sgandurra
, 
La tradizione agiografica italogreca della 
Passio di santa Ciriaca

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Anna Kryukova
Moscow, Russian Federation; 
[e-mail]
An Earlier Unknown Version of the 
Vita of Xenophon, His Wife Mary, 
and Their Children Arcadious and John
from the Collection of Manuscripts 
in the Russian State Library (270/Ia, N 68)
The paper will discuss a newly discovered version of the Vita of Xenophon, his wife Mary, and 
their children Arcadious and John. This text has come down to us in a number of redactions, only 
two of which have been published.
The Vita was originally discovered by Halkin in one of the manuscripts now kept at the Russian 
State Library. However, he erroneously identified the text as the Acts of Xantippe, Polyxena and 
Rebecca. In my paper I will provide the correct attribution of the text and compare its redaction to 
the published versions, as well as one unpublished redaction found in a manuscript from the British 
Museum (Brit. Mus. Add. 10073). My comparative analysis of these three versions of the Vita will 
shed light on the textual relationship between them and more broadly on the place of the Vita in 
Early Christian literature.