Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

Epigrams on Works of Art 163 the following: a reliquary of the head of Symeon the Stylite, a reliquary of the head of St. Stephe ...

164 Part Two: Epigrams in Context but little doubt that the economic value of the reliquary and the relic inside must have been ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 165 phrase sñß Bas5leioß (“your Basil”) implies a special bond between Basil and St. Stephen. As Basil ...

166 Part Two: Epigrams in Context simply painted “the likeness of his appearance”, the corporeal shape in which he once presente ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 167 äll\ oJk ™pistr6óoysiº kaò s0son c1rin. ×xoysi l7tronº eJcarist0 soi, Löge^47. “What do you want, m ...

168 Part Two: Epigrams in Context that derive their imagery from the original Paraklesis composition, such as the well-known ded ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 169 famous Paraklesis epigram and the picture it accompanies were already known in the tenth century, l ...

170 Part Two: Epigrams in Context very end, we are told to our surprise that “the art” does not allow painters to breathe life i ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 171 However, before we turn to the epigram cycles, let us first look at one of these epigrams of Theodo ...

172 Part Two: Epigrams in Context son of thunder” (after Mark 3: 17) and that he “thundered” while preaching his divine words to ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 173 in fact functions as a book epigram celebrating the author of the homilies. One certainly cannot pr ...

174 Part Two: Epigrams in Context charioteers have come to life again and are ready to continue their races. The epigrams were p ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 175 the signal, and off he will go. Julian and the other three charioteers are long dead, but come to l ...

176 Part Two: Epigrams in Context epigrams, Julian (AP XV, 45, cf. APl 386–387), is not attributed a specific colour in the sole ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 177 when the epigrams and the pictures were produced, young Constantine was the ruling emperor: Kznstan ...

178 Part Two: Epigrams in Context themselves as new Constantines and new Justinians. Therefore, the image of imperial victory, a ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 179 the historical continuum of the past and the present. The late antique chariot- eers were there, on ...

180 Part Two: Epigrams in Context Three Christological Epigram Cycles As I shall explain in Appendix VII, Par. Suppl. gr. 690 co ...

Epigrams on Works of Art 181 The most interesting feature of this epigram cycle is the presence of an epigram on the Anastasis a ...

182 Part Two: Epigrams in Context ular epigram, I suspect that it does not describe the Anastasis in the classic sense of the wo ...