Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Gnomic Epigrams 243 of cemeteries and protreptic verses inscribed on the entrances to the church and the altar space (see below) ...

244 Part Two: Epigrams in Context awake or asleep”^7. It is also a concept that recurs in many gnomic epigrams inscribed on the ...

Gnomic Epigrams 245 ̧r6xei to ̄ plo7toyº polloáß lyma5nei 9 to ̄ kösmoy óil5aº 9 s2rx g2r ta7th co ̄ß, phlñß, g‰ Üp1rcei, “Let n ...

246 Part Two: Epigrams in Context (although I would not restrict the search for the original location to Bari), but I think that ...

Gnomic Epigrams 247 “Approach the gate of [the church of] the Theologian in fear; receive Holy Communion tremblingly. For it is ...

248 Part Two: Epigrams in Context There is only one protreptic verse inscription with a totally different func- tion. It is a fa ...

Gnomic Epigrams 249 Addit. 10072 (s. XV), Marc. gr. 408 (a. 1391–1404) and Laur. LXXXVII 16 (s. XIII ex.); Krumbacher calls thes ...

250 Part Two: Epigrams in Context however, the two manuscripts appear to go back to a common source since they present the epigr ...

Gnomic Epigrams 251 Addit. 10072 had been copied in a later manuscript, the additional epigram would have become part of the col ...

252 Part Two: Epigrams in Context but seeing that this particular epigram of Gregory was imitated by many authors, such as Kalli ...

Gnomic Epigrams 253 Kassia and Aesop The metre used by Kassia for the composition of her gnomic epigrams is the famous Byzantine ...

254 Part Two: Epigrams in Context impossible to retrieve the “archetype”. There are no “originals”. There are only different “re ...

Gnomic Epigrams 255 Übrisqeòß par1 tinoß moico ̄ kaò pörnoy, meqysto ̄, kl6ptoy kaò ve7stoy kaò óon6zß però t0n aJt/ symbebhkötz ...

256 Part Two: Epigrams in Context and thus endowed him with an innate spiritual beauty, which he wilfully defiled by his evil de ...

Gnomic Epigrams 257 Gregory of Nazianzos^42 , which means the collection must have been compiled after c. 400 at the earliest. T ...

258 Part Two: Epigrams in Context but assume a different role and obtain an autonomy of their own. In other words, they become g ...

Gnomic Epigrams 259 should not be seen as slavish copyists, but rather as authors in their own right. They are all Aesop. But th ...

260 Part Two: Epigrams in Context think too highly of yourself, lest you, lapsing into ämetr5a like the donkey, learn the hard w ...

Gnomic Epigrams 261 Kaò moò do5h ge Cristñß sygkakoyce¦sqai óron5moiß ändr1si te kaò soózt1toiß Èper syneyóra5nesqai mzro¦ß älög ...

262 Part Two: Epigrams in Context “Between two people sharing a friendship in Christ, there is no equality but rather rivalry”. ...