Note also the comment of Ewa Wipszycka, The Alexandrian Church.
People and Institutions (Warsaw, 2015), 15 n.4: 'The great value of
this translation lies in the detailed commentary ad loc.
Additional Bibliography/Notes/Websites
On the background of Zachariah of Mytilene the church historian and
companion of Severus, discussed in section B of the introduction, see S.
Destephen, Prosopographie chrétienne du bas-empire. Prosopographie du
diocèse d'Asie (Paris, 2008),
s.v. Zacharias 1 (pp.961-73), who offers a very complete assessment of
his life and works which is broadly in agreement with what we put
forward. In the same work biographies of bishops of Ephesus (see PZ
iv.5a), such as Bassianus and Stephen may also be found.
F. Alpi, La route royale. Sévère d'Antioche et les églises
d'Orient (512-518), 2 vols. (Beirut, 2009), is a singularly valuable
work in assessing the life and patriarchate of Severus: of course, PZ in
VII barely discusses the years of Severus' patriarchate, but Alpi's work
has much of general value, e.g. a discussion of Severus' life and career
(I, 39-56), where of course his relationship to Zachariah is discussed.
Downey 1963, referred too at pp.4-5, nn.3, 5, is G. Downey, Gaza
in the Early Sixth Century
Although reviewers have yet to point it out
(October 2012), I
erroneously attributed a visit to Constantinople by Pope Hormisdas in 519
(p.70). It was rather his legates that were received with much pomp in
the imperial capital in that year, bringing to an end the Acacian schism,
rather than the pontiff himself. I am grateful to Professor Evangelos
Chrysos for drawing this mistake to my attention.
On PZ VII.4a (p.238 and n.55),on the name Kanarak see also P. Gignoux,
C. Jullien and F. Jullien, Iranisches Personnenamenbuch, VII, Iranische
Namen in semitischen Nebenüberlieferungen, fasc.5, Noms propres
syriaques d'origine iranienne (Vienna, 2009), 90 no.249.
On PZ VII.5e (p.247 and n.94), E. Honigmann, 'Geographica. L'histoire
ecclésiastique de Jean d'Éphèse', Byzantion 14 (1939), 615-25 at
617-18, notes several monasteries of the Katharoi, including this one
mentioned by PZ; he likewise places it in the vicinity of Amida.
On PZ VII.13 (p.275-6), the uprising of Vitalian, see also D. Ruscu,
'The Revolt of Vitalianus and the "Scythian Controversy"', BZ 101
(2008), 773-85.
On PZ VIII.3d (p.289), on Christians among Mundhir's followers, see
also G. Fisher, Between Empires (Oxford, 2011), 68-9.
On PZ VIII.5c (p.304 and n.111), on the Pesilta monastery, see E.
Keser Kayaalp, 'A Newly Discovered Rock-Cut Complex. Monastery of
Phesilta?', Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
(Istanbul) 58 (2008), 261-83.
On PZ IX.13c (p.339 in the translation), one of Severus' letters to
Julian of Halicarnassus, I have published a brief article noting the
existence of an anonymous version of part of this passage in Greek. See
the
journal Parekbolai 1 (2011) for details (available on-line free).
On PZ IX.17 (p.361 in the translation), the reconquest of North Africa,
see now J. Conant, Staying Roman. Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean,
439-700 (Cambridge, 2012), 308-9, discussing PZ in particular.
On PZ XII.7d(iii) (p.435 of the translation), the possible survival
of Punic in North Africa, see Conant, op. cit., 262-3.
I am currently working on a project funded by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada to produce a commentary on the
first two books of Procopius' Wars (i.e. the Persian Wars)
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