ABSTRACT
For Byzantinists, Demetrius is certainly a most fascinating saint, and this for several reasons. One is the rich complexity of the source material – literary, archaeological, cultic, iconographical – available about him. By no means all of it has been adequately studied. For example, no critical edition exists of his Passio prima and Passio altera. Also numerous Encomia of the Saint still remain in manuscript. As the late Paul Lemerle remarked, so long as these texts remain unpublished scientifically, no definitive appreciation of the Saint is possible.
