Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Collections of Poems 63 the last poem of the collection (no. 99), which serves as a sort of colophon^23. There Mauropous writes ...

64 Part One: Texts and Contexts up head to tail)^26. The author brings like to like, but does not attempt to achieve a rigid cla ...

Collections of Poems 65 The refined thematic structure of Mauropous’ poetry book is without parallel in other Byzantine collecti ...

66 Part One: Texts and Contexts Byzantine art or books, are found at the very end of the collection^30. Thus Pisides’ poetry boo ...

Collections of Poems 67 into two parts: hymns (nos. 1–13) and occasional poems (nos. 14–22)^33. The first thirteen anacreontics ...

68 Part One: Texts and Contexts detail. The small collection of poems by the Anonymous Italian dates from the beginning of the t ...

Collections of Poems 69 Mauropous’ collection of literary works in Vat. gr. 676 contains, apart from his poems, also his letters ...

70 Part One: Texts and Contexts Two Late Ninth-Century Collections of Verse Inscriptions The epigrams of Theodore of Stoudios ca ...

Collections of Poems 71 process of deciphering what was written on the walls, however, the Stoudite monks had ample opportunity ...

72 Part One: Texts and Contexts not restrict himself to the verse inscriptions at Stoudios, but visited other monasteries as wel ...

Collections of Poems 73 Although Dionysios and Gregory were obviously not interested in the same kind of inscriptions, these two ...

74 Part One: Texts and Contexts in AP I (the Christian epigrams), AP VII (the epitaphs) and AP IXb (the epigrams on works of art ...

Collections of Poems 75 of the manuscript^60. Although the anthologist doubtless made use of the orig- inal collection of poems ...

76 Part One: Texts and Contexts studied separately, each in its own historical setting: for instance, Par. Suppl. gr. 690 should ...

Collections of Poems 77 epigram cycle must have been compiled after the dark ages: perhaps in the ninth or the tenth, but more p ...

78 Part One: Texts and Contexts monastery^73. In the fifth chapter I shall discuss numerous epigrams and in- scriptions that ill ...

Collections of Poems 79 narrative scenes that Prodromos selected possess the potential to be visualized and, in fact, were often ...

80 Part One: Texts and Contexts Byzantine painter’s guides. The Painter’s Manual of Dionysios of Phourna and especially the anon ...

Collections of Poems 81 ers and ended up in the waste-basket once they were worn out by frequent use. Epigram cycles, such as th ...

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