Paul the Silentiary
Paul the Silentiary, also known as Paulus Silentiarius (Greek: Παῦλος ὁ Σιλεντιάριος, died AD 575–580), was a Greek Byzantine poet and courtier to the emperor Justinian at Constantinople.
Anthologia Graeca. Vol. I–IV. Griechisch-Deutsch ed. Hermann Beckby (2nd ed.). München: Ernst Heimeran Verlag. 1965. 978-3-110-36220-6.
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Silentiarius, Paulus (2011). . Berlin: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110239072. ISBN 978-3-11-023907-2. [Greek texts]
Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae. Descriptio Ambonis
Bell, Peter Neville, ed. (2009) . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press ISBN 978-1-84631-209-0 OCLC 318874086 [English translation and commentary]
Three Political Voices from the Age of Justinian: Agapetus, 'Advice to the Emperor'; Dialogue on Political Science'; Paul the Silentiary, 'Description of Hagia Sophia'
(Loeb Classical Library) translated by W. R. Paton (1916) Cambridge MA: Harvard UP; London: Heinemann) [Original Greek with facing page English translations]
The Greek Anthology I
Herrmann, John J.; van den Hoek, Annewies (2018). . ASMOSIA XI, Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone, Proceedings of the XI International Conference of ASMOSIA, 2018. pp. 345–349.
"Paul the Silentiary, Hagia Sophia, Onyx, Lydia, and Breccia Corallina"
Kostenec, Jan; Dark, Ken (2011). "Paul the Silentiary's description of Hagia Sophia in the light of new archaeological evidence". Byzantinoslavica. LXIX (3 supplementum): 88–105.
Whitby, Mary (1985). "The Occasion of Paul the Silentiary's Ekphrasis of S. Sophia". The Classical Quarterly. 35 (1): 215–228. :10.1017/S0009838800014695. S2CID 162319806.