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Title Byzantine commentaries on ancient Greek texts, 12th-15th centuries / edited by Baukje van den Berg, Divna Manolova, Przemysław Marciniak
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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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
Greek literature -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800
Byzantine literature
Greek literature
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Byzantine Empire -- Intellectual life
Subject Byzantine Empire
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Van den Berg, Baukje, editor
Manolova, Divna, editor
Marciniak, Przemysław, editor
ISBN 9781009085762
100908576X
9781009092050
1009092057