Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres: Texts and contexts; Epigrams in ...

Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometers, Volume I: Texts and Contexts......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 3
FOREWORD......Page 5
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 7
PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 9
PART ONE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS......Page 15
1. BYZANTINE POETRY IN CONTEXT......Page 17
The Byzantine Epigram......Page 24
Poets and Patrons......Page 32
Poets and Public......Page 43
2. COLLECTIONS OF POEMS......Page 53
Mauropous’ Poetry Book......Page 60
Byzantine Collections of Poems......Page 63
Two Late Ninth-Century Collections of Verse Inscriptions......Page 68
Byzantine Anthologies......Page 72
Epigram Cycles......Page 74
3. ANTHOLOGIES AND ANTHOLOGISTS......Page 81
Constantine Cephalas......Page 84
A Collection of Christian Epigrams: AP I......Page 87
Leo the Philosopher, Constantine the Sicilian & Theophanes the Grammarian......Page 96
A Collection of Classicistic Epigrams: AP XV, 28–40......Page 105
Constantine the Rhodian and Others......Page 112
Byzantine Classicism and Modernism......Page 116
The Anthologia Barberina......Page 121
PART TWO: EPIGRAMS IN CONTEXT......Page 127
4. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EPIGRAM......Page 129
Ex Oriente Lux......Page 131
The Rediscovery of the Epigram......Page 136
Redefining the Byzantine Epigram......Page 140
Re-redefining the Byzantine Epigram......Page 142
5. EPIGRAMS ON WORKS OF ART......Page 147
Two Epigrams from the Greek Anthology......Page 152
Dedicatory Epigrams......Page 156
The Paraklesis......Page 164
Theodore of Stoudios, no. 67......Page 168
Byzantine Charioteer Epigrams......Page 171
Three Christological Epigram Cycles......Page 178
Preaching the Gospel......Page 185
The Bible of Leo Sakellarios......Page 189
6. BOOK EPIGRAMS......Page 195
Colophon Verses......Page 198
Two Psalter Epigrams......Page 200
Two Dedicatory Book Epigrams......Page 204
7. EPITAPHS......Page 211
The Voice of the Dead......Page 213
The Voice of the Next-of-Kin......Page 216
Commemorating the Dead......Page 219
The Hereafter......Page 226
Epitaphs to Emperors......Page 230
8. GNOMIC EPIGRAMS......Page 239
Memento Mori......Page 241
Protreptic Verse Inscriptions......Page 244
Are Kassia’s Epigrams the Work of Kassia?......Page 246
Kassia and Aesop......Page 251
Monastic Wisdom......Page 258
Byzantine Folly, Modern Folly......Page 266
9. THE POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD......Page 269
Writing in Gold......Page 272
APPENDICES......Page 283
APPENDIX I: The Poems of John Geometres......Page 285
APPENDIX II: The Poems of John Geometres Once Again......Page 295
APPENDIX III: John of Melitene......Page 303
APPENDIX IV: Vat. Pal. gr. 367......Page 315
APPENDIX V: Two Anonymous Poets......Page 323
APPENDIX VI: The Contents of Par. Suppl. gr. 690......Page 327
APPENDIX VII: George of Pisidia......Page 332
epigrams on works of art......Page 336
churches and monasteries......Page 337
city walls......Page 338
other public constructions......Page 339
reliquaries, ivories, icons and other small artefacts......Page 340
miniatures......Page 344
epitaphs......Page 347
gnomic epigrams (memento mori)......Page 348
gnomic epigrams (protreptic)......Page 350
APPENDIX IX: Dedicatory Book Epigrams......Page 351
APPENDIX X: AP I, 37–89......Page 355
REFERENCES......Page 361
INDEX I: Epigrams and Poems......Page 373
INDEX II: Manuscripts......Page 378
INDEX III: General Index......Page 380