First ever critical edition of the corpus of forty-two Homilies by the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise (A.D. 886-912). The Homilies are highly rhetorical compositions and consist of panegyrics on ecclesiastical feasts and discourses on special occasions. They are gathered together here for the first time. Thirty-four texts were previously published in inadequate, antiquated and/or inaccessible editions. Another three remained unpublished. The critical edition of these important works of the emperor-scholar of the "Macedonian Renaissance" makes them easily accessible, responding to a desideratum of Byzantine Studies.

The edition is preceded by an original, full-length introduction on the extensive manuscript tradition of the Homilies divided into five chapters. The first four provide a solid investigation of the more than a hundred surviving codices that contain the Homilies, and elaborate on their relationship to each other. The final chapter presents the editorial principles. The establishment of the text according to the modern requirements of textual criticism is accompanied by a detailed critical apparatus as well as an apparatus of sources and significant parallel passages. A series of indices completes the work.

The book will appeal to specialists and students of Byzantine literature and civilization, philologists, historians, theologians and art historians alike, as well as specialists in patristic and medieval homiletics, classicists interested in the survival of the ancient Greek rhetorical and literary tradition, and linguists studying the Greek language in its medieval period. The texts can be used as teaching material at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

Theodora Antonopoulou is Associate Professor of Byzantine Literature at the University of Athens, Greece.

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia I in annuntiationem ( BHG 1118p ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia II in Dominicam in Palmis  — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia III in Domini sepulturam ( BHG 451v ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia IV in resurrectionem  — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia V in ascensionem  — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia VI in Pentecosten — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia VII in Spiritum Sanctum — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia VIII in omnes sanctos ( BHG 1616 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia IX in sanctum Paulum ( BHG 1462 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia X prima in transfigurationem ( BHG 1998t ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XI secunda in transfigurationem ( BHG 1996k ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XII in Virginis dormitionem ( BHG 1113 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XIII in sancti Ioannis Baptistae obtruncationem ( BHG 863 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XIV: oratio funebris Basilii I et Eudociae Ingerinae — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XV in Virginis natalitiam ( BHG 1084 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XVI in Sancti Crucis exaltationem ( BHG 435 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XVII prima in sanctum Demetrium ( BHG 536 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XVIII secunda in sanctum Demetrium ( BHG 537 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XIX tertia in sanctum Demetrium de ecclesiae dedicatione ( ΒΗG 538 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XX in Virginis praesentationem ( BHG 1146 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXI in sanctum Nicolaum ( BHG 1363 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXII in Stephani patriarchae ordinationem — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXIII in Domini nativitatem ( BHG 1898k ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXIV in sanctum Stephanum ( BHG 1663 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXV in Epiphaniam ( BHG 1943k ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXVI in sanctum Clementem Ancyritanum ( ΒΗG 354 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXVII in sanctum Tryphonem ( BHG 1858 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXVIII in Domini praesentationem ( BHG 1974 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXIX prima in Quadragesimae initium — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXX secunda in Quadragesimae initium — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXXI in dedicationem ecclesiae in Cauleae monasterio  — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXXII in dedicationem ecclesiae Sancto Thomae — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXXIII in festum sancti Thomae ( BHG 1844 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXXIV in festum Eliae prophetae ( BHG 577 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXXV in ecclesia Sanctae Sophiae die Epiphaniae ( BHG 1930r ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXXVI: epistula catholica — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXXVII in dedicationem ecclesiae Styliani Zautzis — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXXVIII in sanctum Ioannem Chrysostomum ( BHG 880 ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XXXIX tertia in transfigurationem ( BHG 1984e ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XL tertia in Quadragesimae initium — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XLI in translationem reliquiarum sancti Ioannis Chrysostomi — ed. Th. Antonopoulou

Leo VI Sapiens imperator Byzantinus — Homilia XLII in sancti Ioannis Baptistae natalitiam ( BHG 843p ) — ed. Th. Antonopoulou