Teodosije the Hilandarian

Who is Teodosije the Hilandarian?

Teodosije the Hilandarian was a Serbian Orthodox clergyman and one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts named him one of the 100 most prominent Serbs.

Teodosije is one of the few medieval writers whose works we can find explicit poetic views. They coincide with known Horace's thinking about the function of literature, but the ways in which these attitudes are brought into the Serbian medieval times are very specific. Their roots in ancient Greece, which is elaborated on by Hellenistic writers, and through late antique and early Byzantine, and later Athonite, enters the width of Teodosije.