Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Epigrams on Works of Art 183 Kartsonis assumes that the epigram describes either an extremely rare type of the Crucifixion, in w ...

184 Part Two: Epigrams in Context appears to have been the standard iconographic formula, there are very few churches that have ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 185 (M. 415, 16), and had been donated by a certain Romanos Argyros who held the function of kensor (M. ...

186 Part Two: Epigrams in Context words 4nz and k1tz. Christ is called the Lord of the Heavens, who by His own volition became M ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 187 “O dreadful deed! O amazing sight! Because of us God suffers in the flesh on the cross”^92. In an i ...

188 Part Two: Epigrams in Context they describe. First of all, there are a number of doublets: epigrams dealing with the same ic ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 189 Jewish extraction in the Old Testament epigrams. The subject of the Gentiles, the non-believers, is ...

190 Part Two: Epigrams in Context the priest and Himself the victim”. The epigram describes a picture of the Last Supper and cen ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 191 The Bible of Leo Sakkelarios In the 940s a senior official in the imperial administration, Leo Sake ...

192 Part Two: Epigrams in Context always there, among His people, even when He had not yet manifested himself as clearly as He d ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 193 yet to be done on late antique and Byzantine theological hermeneutics^102. However, the frequent us ...

194 Part Two: Epigrams in Context Purely descriptive, for instance, is the following epigram found next to the frontispiece of t ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 195 Judith killed Holophernes is compared to the sword of Christ, who, born of a woman, died on the cro ...

196 Part Two: Epigrams in Context Words and images are two entirely separate forms of language, which both have a semiotic relat ...

Chapter Six 6. BOOK EPIGRAMS The odes of Byzantine canons, a form of hymnography that came into being in the early eighth centur ...

198 Part Two: Epigrams in Context tion (if he presents the book to a third party) in a dedicatory book epigram. The author of th ...

Book Epigrams 199 the lifetime of Niketas David Paphlagon, do not attribute these epigrams to anyone, it is highly unlikely that ...

200 Part Two: Epigrams in Context uscripts of Achilles Tatius’ Clitophon and Leucippe, such as Laur. Conv. Soppr. 627 and Athen. ...

Book Epigrams 201 æZsper x6noi ca5roysin œde¦n patr5da, oŒtzß kaò oW gr1óonteß bibl5oy t6loß. “Like travellers rejoice upon seei ...

202 Part Two: Epigrams in Context Two Psalter Epigrams Laudatory book epigrams can be found in hundreds and hundreds of Byzantin ...