Constantine Sathas
{{Short description|Greek historian and researcher}}
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| image = Konstantinos Sathas.JPG
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| caption = Photo in Hestia magazine, 1894
| birth_date = 1842
| birth_place = Athens
| death_date = {{death date and age|25 May 1914|1842}}
| death_place = Paris
| nationality = Greek
| occupation = Historian, researcher
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Constantine Sathas ({{langx|el|Κωνσταντίνος Σάθας}}; Athens, 1842 – Paris, 25 May 1914){{Cite journal |last=R. |first=S. |title=Constantin Sathas |date=1914 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41033737 |journal=Revue Archéologique |volume=23 |pages=429–430 |jstor=41033737 |issn=0035-0737}} was a Greek historian and researcher.
Sathas spent his life unearthing hitherto unknown material pertaining to the history of late medieval and early modern Greece that he later published. He researched archives in Greece, Constantinople (now Istanbul), Venice and Florence. In 1900, he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death.
Many of the numerous documents he brought to light still remain primary sources of information. It can be argued that his work was never fully appreciated and some of his views are regarded eccentric nowadays.{{Cite book |last=Siniossoglou |first=Niketas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=piWZkdSw1C8C |title=Radical Platonism in Byzantium |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2011 |isbn=9781107013032 |pages=50–51 |quote=It is worth evoking here the pioneering theory of Konstantinos Sathas regarding the survival of pagan Hellenism within Byzantium. Sathas did not maintain that paganism ultimately shaped the Christian mysteries from inside, as Protestant and deist philosophers had done. Rather, Sathas, nowadays considered eccentric and very rarely (if at all) remembered by modern Byzantinists, argued in favour of a covert pagan movement operating within the Christian Empire and bowing to clerical hegemony while maintaining its own distinct identity.}} Yet, he carried out groundbreaking work and has been considered as the best historian of Greece in the 19th century.{{Cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=James Westfall |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLUNAAAAIAAJ |title=A History of Historical Writing |last2=Holm |first2=Bernard J. |publisher=Macmillan |year=1942 |location=New York |pages=643 |language=en |quote=The best historian of Greece in the last century was Constantine Sathas |author-link=James Westfall Thompson}} He published the first editions of the Cypriot Medieval chronicles of Leontios Machairas and Georgios Boustronios.
Selected works
= In Greek =
- [http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/search/?dtab=m&search_type=simple&search_help=&display_mode=overview&wf_step=init&show_hidden=0&number=10&keep_number=10&cclterm1=&cclterm2=&cclterm3=&cclterm4=&cclterm5=&cclterm6=&cclterm7=&cclterm8=&cclfield1=&cclfield2=&cclfield3=&cclfield4=&cclfield5=&cclfield6=&cclfield7=&cclfield8=&cclop1=&cclop2=&cclop3=&cclop4=&cclop5=&cclop6=&cclop7=&isp=&search_coll%5Bmetadata%5D=1&&stored_cclquery=creator%3D%28%CE%A3%CE%AC%CE%B8%CE%B1%CF%82%2C+%CE%9A%CF%89%CE%BD%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82%2C%29&skin=&rss=0&display_mode=detail&ioffset=1&offset=8&number=1&keep_number=10&old_offset=1&search_help=detail The Revolution of the Greek nation in 17th century], Athens, 1865.
- The chronicle of Galaxeidi, 1865.
- [http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/search/?dtab=m&search_type=simple&search_help=&display_mode=overview&wf_step=init&show_hidden=0&number=10&keep_number=&cclterm1=%CE%95%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC+%CE%91%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%BA%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%B1&cclterm2=&cclterm3=&cclterm4=&cclterm5=&cclterm6=&cclterm7=&cclterm8=&cclfield1=term&cclfield2=&cclfield3=&cclfield4=&cclfield5=&cclfield6=&cclfield7=&cclfield8=&cclop1=&cclop2=&cclop3=&cclop4=&cclop5=&cclop6=&cclop7=&isp=&search_coll%5Bmetadata%5D=1&&stored_cclquery=&skin=&rss=0&display_mode=detail&ioffset=1&offset=1&number=1&keep_number=10&old_offset=1&search_help=detail Hellenika Anekdota (Unpublished Greek texts), (2 volumes), 1867].
- [https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/2/4/b/metadata-01-0000235.tkl New Greek Philology. Biographies of illustrious literary Greeks from ... 1453 to 1821]. 1868.
- Greece under Turkish occupation, 1869.
- [https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/9/b/0/metadata-181-0000011.tkl Medieval Library (7 volumes)], 1872–1894.
- Historical essay on the theatre and music of the Byzantines, 1878.
- Cretan theatre, or a collection of unpublished and unknown dramata, 1879.
- [https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/a/7/f/metadata-425-0000021.tkl Greek Stratioti in the West and the revival of the Greek military tactics], 1885.
= In French =
- [https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/e/9/f/metadata-438-0000090.tkl Documents inédits relatifs à l'histoire de la Grèce au Moyen Âge publiés sous les auspices de la Chambre des députés de Grèce], Paris, 1880–1890. 9 volumes in French, Italian and Latin languages.
- [https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/0/e/b/metadata-457-0000006.tkl Sur les Commentaires byzantins sur Menandre, Homere, etc.: Notice et textes grecs inédits], Paris, 1876.
- [https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/3/9/4/metadata-149-0000034.tkl Deux lettres inedites de l'empereur Michel Ducas Parapinace à Robert Guiscard rédigées par Michel Psellus], Paris, 1875.
- [https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/a/b/8/metadata-457-0000007.tkl La tradition hellenique et la legende de Phidias de Praxitele et de la fille d'Hippocrate au moyen age], Paris, 1875.
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=qZW8NHtCdrsC Les exploits de Digenis Akritas: Epopee byzantine du dixième siècle / publiée pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit unique de Trebizonde.], Athens, 1875. (with Emile Legrand)
= In English =
- He collaborated with J.B. Bury and others for an edition of the History of Michael Psellus (Methuen & Co. London, 1899).
External links
- [http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/65222 Konstantinos Sathas at the Institute for Neohellenic Research]
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Category:Greek emigrants to France