Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Book Epigrams 203 bring light where darkness reigns, and evidence where evidence is so much needed. The same holds true, mutatis ...

204 Part Two: Epigrams in Context read the epigram in Pisides’ collection of poems, the fact that he does not mention the author ...

Book Epigrams 205 excellent commentary Follieri established on metrical grounds that the epi- gram probably dates from the ninth ...

206 Part Two: Epigrams in Context It is beyond any doubt that the anonymous Psalter epigram almost liter- ally plagiarizes the t ...

Book Epigrams 207 poet addresses Hippocrates, Galen, Rufus and mythical Cheiron, “the quadru- plet that soothes pain”, and tells ...

208 Part Two: Epigrams in Context the epigram celebrating Niketas’ surgical handbook tells all future readers: “Crown the compos ...

Book Epigrams 209 similarity between the two book epigrams indicates that the Xenophon manuscript, just like the Cure of Pagan M ...

210 Part Two: Epigrams in Context “For, whoever sees Cyrus the Younger here as he deploys his shield of ten- thousand men and ta ...

Book Epigrams 211 by an Oswald allegedly operating on his own^37. Whether Alexander was actu- ally implicated in any sinister co ...

212 Part Two: Epigrams in Context for keeping his distance and not attacking, but the sad result of his ätolm5a was that the Ara ...

Chapter Seven 7. EPITAPHS In letter no. 60, which he wrote when he was recuperating from a serious illness, Ignatios the Deacon ...

214 Part Two: Epigrams in Context are found, Athous Vatop. 588 (s. XI), offers many incorrect readings (see, for instance, the c ...

Epitaphs 215 crucial difference. It is for this reason that the genre of the “burial song”, or monody, will be treated elsewhere ...

216 Part Two: Epigrams in Context usually a lament that expresses the sentiments of bereavement the next-of-kin experience. And ...

Epitaphs 217 chosen ones”^14. The “storm of life”, f1lh, is a topos in Byzantine poetry (see, for instance, AP I, 118 and Geomet ...

218 Part Two: Epigrams in Context he has to die like all mortals. But knowing all these things, aware of his own mortality and s ...

Epitaphs 219 life is without sorrow; but he who clings to the commandments of God, [...]”^19. The rest of the inscription is too ...

220 Part Two: Epigrams in Context rather unusual request – unless we assume that Theodore of Stoudios truly hoped for his sister ...

Epitaphs 221 customary to inscribe epitaphs on these arcosoliums, either inside the niche itself or around it^25. It is reasonab ...

222 Part Two: Epigrams in Context “Here lies the brave general, who, during eighteen long years, preserved Rome and the West int ...