Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Byzantine Poetry in Context 23 the term as follows: “A short poem leading up to and ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thoug ...

24 Part One: Texts and Contexts epigrams as a valid criterion. His notion of “internal evidence” looks much like a second line o ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 25 accomplishment of great genius. It is in itself an astonishing work of art, manufactured by thous ...

26 Part One: Texts and Contexts doomed to fail. The trite maxim “ad fontes” also holds true in this particular instance. If we w ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 27 First of all, ™p5gramma is not a frequently used term in the literary voca- bulary of the Byzanti ...

28 Part One: Texts and Contexts that was written above the kathedra of the Eparch in the Hippodrome on the picture of the four-h ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 29 so unusual that, when the anthologist was composing his lemmata, it did not immediately spring to ...

30 Part One: Texts and Contexts In these two instances the term ™p5gramma means “book epigram”. It is an epigram that accompanie ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 31 ™p5gramma as an inscription or a book epigram, then this is what a Byzantine epigram is. It follo ...

32 Part One: Texts and Contexts nately the number of epigrams still located in their original surroundings is fairly limited. Th ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 33 Although the number of epigrams that are still to be found in situ is extremely limited, one shou ...

34 Part One: Texts and Contexts poetry book is neatly divided into epigrams and poems: the former are to be found at the beginni ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 35 poem no. 16, Michael Psellos asks Emperor Michael IV (1034–1041) to appoint him as a notary; in a ...

36 Part One: Texts and Contexts the military from the late 950s to 985: his military rank is unknown, but at a certain point in ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 37 example of an intellectual serving different masters without ever feeling obliged to enter into t ...

38 Part One: Texts and Contexts present in his own literary works – a tendency exemplified by the lyrical effusions of Symeon th ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 39 Herakleios, the emperor whom he would faithfully serve throughout his re- maining career^51. In t ...

40 Part One: Texts and Contexts describe in words the marvellous beauty of the church of the Holy Apostles? How should I express ...

Byzantine Poetry in Context 41 twenty years. There is no need, therefore, to interpret verse Cr. 308, 4 too literally: kaò moysi ...

42 Part One: Texts and Contexts gain from this whole rigmarole of drafting and redrafting corrected versions of someone else’s p ...