Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Gnomic Epigrams 263 The best way to understand Kassia and the ambiguities of her poetry is to look at the various sources she us ...

264 Part Two: Epigrams in Context trious and prolific writer, seeing that at least a third of all epigrams bear his name. He is ...

Gnomic Epigrams 265 gnomes, prosodic and unprosodic, by Georgides, which we find in his gnomol- ogy. The monastic epigrams appea ...

266 Part Two: Epigrams in Context “A prudent man does not use many words, for it is a sign of boorishness to chatter unduly” T2 ...

Gnomic Epigrams 267 \Er) troó‰ß tñ s0maº to ̄to kaò k7neߺ äsit5aß tñ pne ̄maº to ̄to kaò nöeß. Šlo ̄ tñ kre¦ttonº kaò synaóq!ß ...

268 Part Two: Epigrams in Context epigrams I quoted above: œñß s5dhron dapan) kaq\ 9m6ran kaò mnhs5kakon 9 ponhr5a pl6on (G 529) ...

Gnomic Epigrams 269 “Wisdom in a fool is another form of folly; wisdom in a fool is a bell on a pig’s snout”. The word gn0siß is ...

270 Part Two: Epigrams in Context the icons in her youth, but assumed a more moderate stance in the 820s. She founded a monaster ...

Chapter Nine 9. THE POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD During the dark ages the island of Samos was constantly under heavy attack. It was ...

272 Part Two: Epigrams in Context cultural life of the capital. Another “old-fashioned” feature of the verse inscrip- tion at Sa ...

The Power of the Written Word 273 literate cultures, the signified meaning is more important by far than the sign itself. In ill ...

274 Part Two: Epigrams in Context Writing in Gold When in 814, shortly before Christmas, emperor Leo V removed the image of Chri ...

The Power of the Written Word 275 composition of this anti-conoclastic treatise. The letter states that Theodore received the ic ...

276 Part Two: Epigrams in Context Theodore of Stoudios and the iconoclast poets. C and D ended up in the edition of the Refutati ...

The Power of the Written Word 277 The three other texts we find at the end of the Refutation are an epigram by John (the Grammar ...

278 Part Two: Epigrams in Context epigrams can already be found in a tenth-century manuscript (Vat. gr. 1257), this literary for ...

The Power of the Written Word 279 “They who speak about God write Christ in golden letters and visualize [Him], not with materia ...

280 Part Two: Epigrams in Context verb crysograó0 as logograó0^32. But what about the first two connotations of the term? I woul ...

The Power of the Written Word 281 ^R8sei proóht0n – ½8seiß proóht0n is a collocation in Byzantine Greek, it means “the sayings o ...

282 Part Two: Epigrams in Context presupposes that there is someone just like you, who has the same rights, enjoys the same prer ...