Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres: Texts and Contexts, Vol. I. Wiener Byzantische Studien, XXIV/1.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband berieben, Vorder- und Fu�chnitt leicht angeschmutzt, Bleistifteintrag auf Schmutztitel, sonst sehr gut und sauber / Binding rubbed, fore-edge and bottom edges slightly soiled, pencil entry on half title, otherwise very good and clean. - CONTENTS Foreword Abbreviations Primary Sources PART ONE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS 1. Byzantine Poetry in Context The Byzantine Epigram Poets and Patrons Poets and Public 2. Collections of Poems Mauropous� Poetry Book Byzantine Collections of Poems Two Late Ninth-Century Collections of Verse Inscriptions Byzantine Anthologies Epigram Cycles 3. Anthologies and Anthologists Constantine Cephalas A Collection of Christian Epigrams: AP I Leo the Philosopher, Constantine the Sicilian & Theophanes the Grammarian 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 4. A Short History of the Byzantine Epigram Ex Oriente Lux The Rediscovery of the Epigram Redefining the Byzantine Epigram Re-redefining the Byzantine Epigram 5. Epigrams on Works of Art Two Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Dedicatory Epigrams The Paraklesis Theodore of Stoudios, no. 67 Byzantine Charioteer Epigrams Three Christological Epigram Cycles Preaching the Gospel The Bible of Leo Sakkelarios 6. Book Epigrams Colophon Verses Two Psalter Epigrams Two Dedicatory Book Epigrams 7. Epitaphs The Voice of the Dead The Voice of the Next-of-Kin Commemorating the Dead The Hereafter Epitaphs to Emperors 8. Gnomic Epigrams Memento Mori Protreptic Verse Inscriptions Are Kassia�s Epigrams the Work of Kassia? Kassia and Aesop Monastic Wisdom Byzantine Folly, Modern Folly 9. The Power of the Written Word Writing in Gold APPENDICES 1. The Poems of John Geometres 2. The Poems of John Geometres Once Again 3. John of Melitene 4. Vat. Pal. gr. 367 5. Two Anonymous Poets 6. The Contents of Par. Suppl. gr. 690 7. George of Pisidia 8. Verse Inscriptions 9. Dedicatory Book Epigrams 10. AP I, 37-89 References Indices. ISBN 9783700131502