Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

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Herausgeber Johannes KODDER und Otto KRESTEN Herausgegeben von der Kommission für Byzantinistik der Österreichischen Akademie de ...

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Foreword Abbreviations Primary Sources PART ONE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS BYZANTINE POETRY IN CONTEXT The Byzantine Epigram Poets ...

Foreword This book presents a survey of Byzantine poetry, secular and religious – but with one regrettable omission: hymnography ...

8 Foreword parts, Epigrams in Context and Poems in Context, where various kinds of Byzantine poetry pass in review, I analyze a ...

Abbreviations AnBoll Analecta Bollandiana AB Anthologia Barberina AP Anthologia Palatina APl Appendix Planudea BCH Bulletin de C ...

10 Abbreviations RESEE Revue des Études Sud-Est Européennes ROC Revue de l’ Orient Chrétien RSBN Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Ne ...

Primary Sources Alexander of Nicaea APl 21–22; 281 ed. BECKBY 1957–58: IV, 316 and 454 Anastasios Quaestor AP XV, 28 ed. BECKBY ...

12 Primary Sources ekphrasis of the Church of the ed. LEGRAND 1896: 36– Holy Apostles Constantine the Sicilian AP XV, 13 ed. BEC ...

Primary Sources 13 Ignatios the Deacon AP XV, 29–31; 39a ed. BECKBY 1957–58: IV, 282–284 and 288 iconoclastic epigrams ed. PG 99 ...

14 Primary Sources The Bath of Leo VI ed. CICCOLELLA 2000a: 94– Thousand-Line Theology ed. VASSIS 2002: 71– On Thermal Springs e ...

Primary Sources 15 Seneca Iatrosophistes AP I, 90 ed. CAMERON 1983: 284– Sergios iconoclastic epigram ed. PG 99, 437 Sophronios ...

16 Primary Sources Frequently quoted authors of the eleventh and twelfth centuries: Christopher Mitylenaios nos. 1–145 ed. KURTZ ...

PART ONE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS ...

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Chapter One 1. BYZANTINE POETRY IN CONTEXT In The Secret of Eloquence, a book on Arabic stylistics written in 1062 by the Syrian ...

20 Part One: Texts and Contexts abbi’s poetry, reacted as he did. As he was obviously not familiar with the conventions of Arabi ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 21 with Byzantine eyes and allow ourselves to indulge in the pleasures of Byzan- tine literature – w ...

22 Part One: Texts and Contexts nungen [namely, epic, dramatic and lyric poetry], zumindenst in den Titeln, unter Anführungszeic ...