Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Anthologies and Anthologists 103 second part of the Sylloge Parisina and AP XII often have the same epigrams in the same order^6 ...

104 Part One: Texts and Contexts ful Runaway Love are particularly interesting because the poem was included in the Garland of M ...

Anthologies and Anthologists 105 epigrams by Leo the Philosopher and Theophanes the Grammarian. Leo’s epigrams are there because ...

106 Part One: Texts and Contexts nothing in common^72. It is not difficult to guess, therefore, who of the two is the author of ...

Anthologies and Anthologists 107 10; two verses not copied by Planudes; APl 387, nos. 6, 5, 8, 7 and 9^75. Palindromes are total ...

108 Part One: Texts and Contexts together by Cephalas, it would mean that he had copied the epigram twice: first immediately aft ...

Anthologies and Anthologists 109 uncial to minuscule. Kometas might be slightly exaggerating, but as any modern editor knows, th ...

110 Part One: Texts and Contexts Çhsqa, 4nax nek1dzn \Aúdzneáß / oÊpot\ Çtlh me¦nai, ™peò Í polá ó6rtatoß Ísqa (vv. 43–44). The ...

Anthologies and Anthologists 111 this in his heart and sees it in pictures? For as God He prevails over us, but as Man He does n ...

112 Part One: Texts and Contexts gr. 433 (s. XI)^91. What is more, Ignatios the Deacon did not hit upon the unusual idea of writ ...

Anthologies and Anthologists 113 epimerisms already existed in late antiquity^97 , I suspect that Ignatios’ “redis- covery of gr ...

114 Part One: Texts and Contexts generous forget entirely their beneficence”. This is Homer all over again: the souls of the dea ...

Anthologies and Anthologists 115 (Neai Patrai) and now resides in Constantinople where he loyally serves the Emperor Leo VI^102. ...

116 Part One: Texts and Contexts Cephalas manuscript copied at the behest of Thomas himself or one of his friends. The second so ...

Anthologies and Anthologists 117 more. Since AP XV, 1 belongs to the preceding Ekphrasis, the collection of epigrams compiled by ...

118 Part One: Texts and Contexts the Technopaegnia, the Anacreontea, a number of poems by Gregory of Nazian- zos as well as the ...

Anthologies and Anthologists 119 epitaph to Homer: AP VII, 3. At Cr. 320, 14 Geometres quotes Menander, Monostich 231. Geometres ...

120 Part One: Texts and Contexts 284: (king Amphion) Ýß pot\ ™n \Orcomen/ Minye5ù Éói 4nassen [cf. v. 12: (Leo) c0ron ™pikrat6z ...

Anthologies and Anthologists 121 non-classicizing styles such as oriental motifs on Byzantine silks^129. Likewise, the hellenism ...

122 Part One: Texts and Contexts on the subject, I think that he would tell us that we really should learn to distinguish betwee ...