Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

A Short History of the Byzantine Epigram 143 compose an epideictic epigram after the dark ages (AP XV, 13). This text was ridicu ...

144 Part Two: Epigrams in Context of Stoudios admonishes his own soul to be aware of the proximity of death and to prepare itsel ...

A Short History of the Byzantine Epigram 145 The tenth century is the period in which the literary legacy of the Byzan- tines th ...

146 Part Two: Epigrams in Context they no longer see Leo alive. Oh, what a great loss!”^31. Although one would expect that an ep ...

A Short History of the Byzantine Epigram 147 with the literary movement of Leo the Philosopher, even though he is the subject of ...

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Chapter Five 5. EPIGRAMS ON WORKS OF ART In the church of the Panagia Phorbiotissa at Asinou, on the island of Cyprus, a fresco ...

150 Part Two: Epigrams in Context seem somewhat surprising, but this sort of second-hand use of epigrams is not without parallel ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 151 The majority of Byzantine verse inscriptions on works of art are dedicatory texts in which the dono ...

152 Part Two: Epigrams in Context equipped with a lemma noting its provenance and does not contain any inter- nal clues, such as ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 153 phrastic epigrams”^11. Both terms are incorrect. The error results from blindly relying on the clas ...

154 Part Two: Epigrams in Context Two Epigrams from the Greek Anthology The anthology of Cephalas, especially its first book (AP ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 155 oblique reference to the Gospel text stating that the Apostle Peter, when he arrived at the tomb, b ...

156 Part Two: Epigrams in Context seem to contradict this dating. However, the medial caesura in the fourth verse (a metrical ph ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 157 of the typically Byzantine metrical ‘error’ in the fourth verse (the medial caesura), a ninth-centu ...

158 Part Two: Epigrams in Context Dedicatory Epigrams As there are many dedicatory epigrams, a few specimens only must suffice h ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 159 interpreted. “The art is thine, O Word”. Images need words. The mosaic is adorned with a verse insc ...

160 Part Two: Epigrams in Context commissioned a work of art and paid for it, there is nothing wrong with it. However, if it imp ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 161 The first category is regrettably small in number, the second extremely popu- lar. Epigrams and ver ...

162 Part Two: Epigrams in Context The smallest artefacts on which verse inscriptions can be found are lead seals^33. The texts u ...