Description |
1 online resource (x, 386 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction: Byzantine commentaries on ancient Greek texts / Baukje van den Berg and Divna Manolova ; 1. The politics and practices of commentary in Komnenian Byzantium / Panagiotis A. Agapitos ; 2. Forging identities between Heaven and Earth: commentaries on Aristotle and authorial practices in eleventh- and twelfth-century Byzantium / Michele Trizio ; 3. Cultural appropriation and the performance of exegesis in John Tzetzes' scholia on Aristophanes / Aglae Pizzone ; 4. Uncovering the literary sources of John Tzetzes' Theogony / Maria Tomadaki ; 5. Odysseus the schedographer / Valeria F. Lovato ; 6. Eustathios of Thessalonike on comedy and ridicule in Homeric poetry / Baukje van den Berg ; 7. Geography at school: Eustathios of Thessalonike's Parekbolai on Dionysius Periegetes / Inmaculada Pérez Martín ; 8. Painting and polyphony: the Christos Paschon as commentary / Margaret Mullett ; 9 Parodying antiquity for pleasure and learning: the Idyll by Maximos Planoudes / Krystina Kubina ; 10. Teaching poetry in the early Palaiologan school: Manuel Holobolos' and John Pediasimos' commentaries on Theocritus' Syrinx / Paula Caballero Sánchez ; 11. Late Byzantine scholia on the Greek classics: what did they comment on? Manuel Moschopoulos on Sophocles' Electra / Andrea M. Cuomo ; 12. Theodora Raoulaina's autograph codex Vat. gr. 1899 and Aelius Aristides / Fevronia Nousia ; 13. The reception of Eustathios of Thessalonike's Parekbolai in Arsenios Apostolis' and Erasmus' paroemiographic collections / Lorenzo M. Ciolfi |
Summary |
Addresses the importance of ancient literature for Byzantine society and explores various ways of recycling and understanding ancient works |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record |
Subject |
Byzantine literature -- History and criticism
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Greek literature -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800
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Byzantine literature
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Greek literature
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Intellectual life
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SUBJECT |
Byzantine Empire -- Intellectual life
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Subject |
Byzantine Empire
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Van den Berg, Baukje, editor
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Manolova, Divna, editor
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Marciniak, Przemysław, editor
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ISBN |
9781009085762 |
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100908576X |
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9781009092050 |
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1009092057 |
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