Edited with introductions by Gregory Nagy.
Volume nine of this carefully selected collection of critical writings on Greek literature focuses on the Byzantine Period. The nine volume set traces the Greek roots of all major literary genres-epic, lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, history, oratory, and philosphy. With articles by noted scholars including Albert Bates Lord, Milman Parry, Diskin Clay, and Walter Burkert, this seven volume set covers Greek literature from 6th century BC to the Byzantine era.
Author(s): Gregory Nagy (ed.)
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: X+458
Series Introduction vii
Volume Introduction ix
Section A. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
1. From Ephrem to Romanos / Sebastian Brock 1
2. Wandering Poets: A Literary Movement in Byzantine Egypt / Alan Cameron 14
3. The Sixth Sibylline Oracle as a Literary Hymn / Mark D. Usher 55
4. On the Imitation (Mimesis) of Antiquity in Byzantine Literature / Herbert Hunger 80
Section B. Registers and Styles
5. The Language of Byzantine Literature / Robert Browning 103
6. The Oral Background of Byzantine Popular Poetry / Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys 134
7. The Function and Evolution of Byzantine Rhetoric / George L. Kustas 179
8. Levels of Style in Byzantine Literature / Ihor Sevcenko 199
Section C. "The Saint's Life"
9. The "Low Level" Saint's Life in the Early Byzantine World / Robert Browning 223
10. Imperial Panegyric: Rhetoric and Reality / George T. Dennis 235
11. Byzantine Hagiography and Sex in the Fifth to Twelfth Centuries / Alexander Kazhdan 245
12. Byzantine Descriptions of Works of Art / Henry Maguire 258
Section D. Literary Renaissance
13. The Poverty of Écriture and the Craft of Writing: Towards a Reappraisal of the Prodromic Poems / Margaret Alexiou 301
14. Poetic Justice in the Patriarchate: Murder and Cannibalism in the Provinces / Ruth Macrides 341
15. Honour among Romaioi: The Framework of Social Values in the World of "Digenes Akrites" and Kekaumenos / Paul Magdalino 373
16. Aristocracy and Patronage in the Literary Circles of Comnenian Constantinople / Margaret Mullett 409
17. Amphoteroglossia: The Role of Rhetoric in the Medieval Learned Novel / Panagiotis Roilos 439
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