Cyrillona, also spelled Qurilona (fl. 4th century AD), was an early Syriac poet. He was the younger contemporary of Ephrem the Syrian. It is speculated that he might have been a nephew of Ephrem.[1][2] He was a contemporary of Balai of Qenneshrin.[3] Gustav Bickell has referred to him as the most important Syriac poet after Ephrem.[4]

Only five of Cyrillona's poems survive, each examined and explained by Griffin, but "On the Grain of Wheat" is of doubtful authenticity.[5] His poem On Zaccheus,[6] is about the invasion of Syria by Huns,[3] is preserved on the manuscript BL Add. 14,591 kept at the British Library.[4]

Bibliography

  • Costantino Vona (ed.), I carmi di Cirillona. Studio introduttivo - traduzione - commento, Rome, Desclée & Co., 1963.
  • Carl Griffin, Cyrillona. A Critical Study and Commentary, PhD diss., Catholic University of America, 2011.
  • Carl Griffin, Cyrillona. A Critical Study and Commentary, Piscataway (NJ), Gorgias, 2016.
  • Calr Griffin (ed.),The Works of Cyrillona, Piscataway (NJ), Gorgias, 2016.

References

  1. ↑ Murray, R. (2006). Symbols of Church and Kingdom: A Study in Early Syriac Tradition. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 9780567429506. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  2. ↑ Brock, Sebastian P. (1997). A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature. Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute.
  3. 1 2 "fcsartheorient.com". fcsartheorient.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  4. 1 2 Carl Griffin, Cyrillona. A Critical Study and Commentary, PhD diss., Catholic University of America, 2011.
  5. ↑ Griffin, Carl. Cyrillona: A Critical Study and Commentary. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.
  6. ↑ "Fullscreen | Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship". publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-08-13. Retrieved 2015-08-13.


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