Agapetus the Deacon

• ABOUT:
  • 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia: (Read with caution)
  • Wilhelm Blum: Agapetos. From Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, 1998. --- Bautz

• WORKS:
  • Ecthesis (Capita admonitoria). PG 86:1163. An early and influential example of the "Mirror for Princes" genre. The emperor,though human, is God's representative; the earthly kingdom mirrors the heavenly.
    • Patrick Henry III: A Mirror for Justinian, (1967). Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (8/4): 281.