Two metrical poems
Date: Between 1159 (when the event described in both mēmrē took place) and 1171
Original Language: Syriac
Description
Gregory Barhebraeus (Chronicon ecclesiasticum, ed. Abbeloos and Lamy, iii, pp. 347-52) mentions Dionysius as the author of two metrical compositions on the steadfastness of a Syrian Orthodox girl who resisted pressure by Muslim doctors from Mosul to convert to Islam, as well a…