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Soon after Symeon Metaphrastes (also called Symeon the Logothetes; end of tenth century) finished his literary project, the Georgian monks at the monastery of Iviron on Mount Athos started translating not only Symeon`s saints` lives but also adopted metaphrastic method and applied it to other texts. The increased interest of the Georgian learned monks in Symeon Metaphrastes` saints` lives demonstrates the popularity of Metaphrastic menologion and success of Symeon`s literary project. Euthymios the Athonite, a learned Georgian monk from the Iviron monastery, translated several metaphrastic hagiographical texts into Georgian either during Symeon . . .
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