Rereading the Story of the City of Cherson and the Maiden Gykia in De administrando imperio as Arts of Rule Narrative
Journal: Essays in medieval studies
Year: 2015

Rereading the Story of the City of Cherson and the Maiden Gykia in De administrando imperio as Arts of Rule Narrative Alex G. Papadopoulos The story of the castle or city of Cherson (located in the southern Crimea) and the Maiden Gykia serves as the concluding chapter of the significant tenth-century treatise on Byzantine imperial governance, known since the sixteenth century by its Latin title De administrando imperio (henceforth Dai).1 Compiled and in part directly authored by Konstantinos VII