Cosmos Reference library
Karl-Heinz Uthemann and Anthony Cutler
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(κόσμος, lit. “world”). The fundamental Greek world view emphasized the unity, harmony, and beauty of reality. In the Platonic tradition, the perceptible cosmos is conceived as an image of ...
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Maximos the Confessor
Theologian and saint; baptismal name Moschion; born 580. According to the 10th-C. enkomion by a Stoudite monk, Michael Exaboulites (W. Lackner, AB 85 [1967] 312), Maximos was born in Constantinople ...
Oikoumene
(οἰκουμένη, lit. “the inhabited [earth]”), an ancient concept that had various meanings in Byz. The word oikoumene was used, as in antiquity, to designate the earth as a whole: thus ...
personification
Representation of a human figure with attributes to suggest an abstraction, such as Hope with Anchor. Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (1593) was an important source-book for personification.Lampugnani (ed.) ...
