Prosopon Newsletter
Copyright © Alexis G. C. Savvides, 1996
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Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History
and Civilisation.
Alexis G. C. Savvides (C.B.R/N.H.R.F., Athens)
This Lexicon is a long-term project started in 1987 which will encompass the whole of
Byzantine prosopography for the period c. 300 to c. 1500 in an estimated nine or ten
volumes. The first volume contains approximately 300 entries (Aamr to Alphios) and is due
to be published in late 1995 or early 1996. The second volume (Alphios to Apseudes) is
currently in preparation. The Lexicon is edited by Dr Alexis Savvides of the Centre for
Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, and is published by
‘Metron’ Editions (Athens). It is a collaborative and international project: contributions
have been received from scholars of a range of disciplines, including Byzantinists,
Slavicists, Orientalists and medievalists, based in numerous countries including Greece,
Armenia, Bulgaria, Great Britain, and former Yugoslavia. All entries are published in
Greek and entries submitted in other languages (preferably English) will be translated into
Greek for publication. Contributors will not be paid for their entries, but will instead
receive between one and three free copies of the volume(s) in which their contributions
appear. The entries – undersigned with the contributor’s initials – are usually followed by
detailed bibliographies, for which the abbreviation-lists of the journal Byzantinos Domos,
edited by A. G. C. Savvides (Athens, 1987-) are recommended. Other pertinent lists can be
found in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift (Stuttgart); Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
(Oxford); Byzantinoslavica (Prague); Dumbarton Oaks Papers (Washington D.C.);
Epeteris Hetaireias Byzantinon Spoudon (Athens); Jahrbuch der österreichischen
Byzantinistik (Vienna); Revue des études byzantines (Paris); and, Rivista di studi bizantini e
slavi (Bologna); see also The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (New York and Oxford,
1991), I, xxi ff.
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A review of the first volume of the Lexicon will appear in a future number of this newsletter. For prospective
contributions and other scholarly queries, please contact Dr Savvides (home address: 7 Tralleon Str., Nea
Smyrne, Athens 171 21, Greece; tel. 01-9344-133 or 9310-040); or the publisher Mr Demosthenes Koukounas
of ‘Metron’ Editions (24, Ithakes Str., Athens 112 57, Greece; tel. 01-8213-762).
Prosopon Newsletter, 4 (January 1996)