Αναζητώντας τον ιδρυτή της μονής Δαφνίου

Abstract

In this paper an effort is made to gather some facts, about the entirely unknown personality of the donor of the catholicon of the Dormition of the Virgin, Daphni. By examining the quality and the meaning of its decoration, (mosaics) traces of evidence are investigated about the personality of its unknown donor. Gregory Kamateros was Praetor of the adjacent themes of Greece and the Peloponnese as is known by seals of the 11th-12th c. A learned person with a high theological education, who acquired great wealth as a tax collector and became secretary to Alexios I in 1094 and later married Eirini Doukaina from the Doukas’ family and attained the rank of logothetis ton secreton, there is a strong probability that he may be considered the monastery’s donor. He founded, likely, the monastery in lands belonging to his family, in Attica