Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

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  • Foreword

  • Abbreviations

  • Primary Sources

  • PART ONE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS



    1. BYZANTINE POETRY IN CONTEXT



    • The Byzantine Epigram

    • Poets and Patrons

    • Poets and Public





    1. COLLECTIONS OF POEMS



    • Mauropous’ Poetry Book

    • Byzantine Collections of Poems

    • Two Late Ninth-Century Collections of Verse Inscriptions

    • Byzantine Anthologies

    • Epigram Cycles





    1. ANTHOLOGIES AND ANTHOLOGISTS



    • Constantine Cephalas

    • A Collection of Christian Epigrams: AP I

    • Grammarian Leo the Philosopher, Constantine the Sicilian & Theophanes the

    • A Collection of Classicistic Epigrams: AP XV, 28-40

    • Constantine the Rhodian and Others

    • Byzantine Classicism and Modernism

    • The Anthologia Barberina



  • PART TWO: EPIGRAMS IN CONTEXT



    1. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EPIGRAM



    • Ex Oriente Lux

    • The Rediscovery of the Epigram

    • Redefining the Byzantine Epigram

    • Re-redefining the Byzantine Epigram





    1. EPIGRAMS ON WORKS OF ART



    • Two Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

    • Dedicatory Epigrams

    • The Paraklesis 6 Inhaltsverzeichnis

    • Theodore of Stoudios, no.

    • Byzantine Charioteer Epigrams

    • Three Christological Epigram Cycles

    • Preaching the Gospel

    • The Bible of Leo Sakkelarios





    1. BOOK EPIGRAMS



    • Colophon Verses

    • Two Psalter Epigrams

    • Two Dedicatory Book Epigrams





    1. EPITAPHS



    • The Voice of the Dead

    • The Voice of the Next-of-Kin

    • Commemorating the Dead

    • The Hereafter

    • Epitaphs to Emperors





    1. GNOMIC EPIGRAMS



    • Memento Mori

    • Protreptic Verse Inscriptions

    • Are Kassia’s Epigrams the Work of Kassia?

    • Kassia and Aesop

    • Monastic Wisdom

    • Byzantine Folly, Modern Folly





    1. THE POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD



    • Writing in Gold



  • APPENDICES



      1. The Poems of John Geometres





      1. The Poems of John Geometres Once Again





      1. John of Melitene





      1. Vat. Pal. gr.





      1. Two Anonymous Poets





      1. The Contents of Par. Suppl. gr.





      1. George of Pisidia





      1. Verse Inscriptions





      1. Dedicatory Book Epigrams





      1. AP I, 37-89





  • References

  • Indices

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