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Homily on the Siege of Constantinople

Written 626 or 627, probably in Constantinopolis (now Istanbul, Turkey). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

A sermon of thanks for the rescue of Constantinople from the Avars and Persians in the summer of 626.

Homily · first written in Greek

The corpus title names the Homily on the Robe. The file holds the Homily on the Siege of 626.

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable

Introduction at https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/theodore_syncellus_00_eintro.htm; Chronicon Paschale under the year 626; Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, "Theodore Synkellos"
Given soon after the siege, perhaps on its first anniversary, 7 August 627.

Place written probable

Introduction at https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/theodore_syncellus_00_eintro.htm; Chronicon Paschale under the year 626; Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, "Theodore Synkellos"