Life of Symeon Stylites the Younger

Vita Symeonis Stylitae Iunioris · Anonymous (disciple of Symeon; hagiographer writing at Antioch/Wondrous Mountain) · 7th century, after Symeon's death in 592 · hagiography

Greek · domain: hagiography · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo search 'The Life of Symeon Stylites the Younger' returns three records only: L. Parker, Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch (Oxford, 2022); a chapter-level record for the same book; and a journal article (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22The%20Life%20of%20Symeon%20Stylites%20the%20Younger%22&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The HOLLIS contents note for the 2022 monograph prints its full chapter list, and chapters 3 and 4 are analytical ('3. The Life of Symeon Stylites the Younger — The Hagiographer's Worldview / Christology / Opposition and Crisis'; '4. The Life of Martha — Cult Promotion and Apologetic ...'), with no appendix translation of either Life (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Symeon%20stylites%20the%20younger%20and%20late%20antique%20antioch&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A second query, 'Life of Saint Symeon the Younger English', returns four English records and none is a translation of this Life: the Talbot-edited Byzantine Defenders of Images (1998), whose HOLLIS contents list eight lives (Theodosia, Stephen the Younger, Anthousa x2, Nikephoros, David/Symeon/George of Lesbos, Ioannikios, Theodora) and does not include Symeon the Younger. ANF/NPNF tables of contents (ccel.org) contain no Life of Symeon the Younger. No edition-translation in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library or Translated Texts for Historians was located.

Long, historically rich Life of the younger stylite of the Wondrous Mountain near Antioch; survives in a 9th-11th c. manuscript tradition and is a key source for 6th-c. Antioch, the plague and earthquakes, and stylite monasticism. Greek text: P. Van den Ven, La vie ancienne de S. Syméon Stylite le Jeune, 2 vols., Subsidia Hagiographica 32 (Brussels, 1962-1970) — not verified independently in this pass beyond the HOLLIS record for the study literature. Lucy Parker's 2022 monograph and her 2016 JECS article translate only excerpts.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: restricted scan — 1 candidate(s). No open scan of the Greek text: the edition (Van den Ven, Subsidia Hagiographica 32, 1962-1970, Greek text + French translation) exists on IA only as a loan copy, and no PG volume contains the Vita. A manuscript route was not closed in this pass. Checks: IA title/creator searches (found bwb_T5-AVQ-105 only); BnF SRU bib.title all "Syméon Stylite" → 7 records including the Van den Ven edition and its translation volume, i.e. catalogue records but no digitisation; DigiVatLib is reachable only IIIF-by-shelfmark here (its search endpoint returns 403 in this environment), so no shelfmark search was possible; the LOC Sinai collection JSON query q=Symeon returned HTTP 429 (rate limited) both times, so that check is unverified. Next step: a shelfmark for the Life's Greek tradition (9th-11th c.) from Pinakes, then a DigiVatLib manifest.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "Life of Symeon Stylites the Younger" — 1 record(s); match basis author_title.

Sources checked

• HOLLIS search — "The Life of Symeon Stylites the Younger"
• HOLLIS search — Life of Saint Symeon the Younger English
• HOLLIS search — Symeon stylites the younger and late antique antioch

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Symeon Stylites the Younger” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-anonymous-vita-symeonis-stylitae-iunioris