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ISBN 13: 9783700131502
Author:  Marc D Lauxtermann

The two-volume study Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres. Texts and Contexts, constitutes a survey of Byzantine poems written between ca. 600 and 1000, with particular emphasis on the historical contexts that generated these texts. It is a study of literary genres set against the background of historical developments that changed Byzantine culture fundamentally. In this first volume the author deals with contextual and textual problems of Byzantine poetry (chapters 1-3) and treats various kinds of the Byzantine epigram (chapters 4-9). The book concludes with 10 appendices that present the material evidence: manuscripts and verse inscriptions. nThe book is of interest to historians, art historians and philologists; as all the texts are translated, it can also be read by scholars with little or no knowledge of Byzantine Greek.

Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres 1st Table of contents:

Volume One: Epigrams in Context

• Foreword
• Abbreviations
• Primary Sources (Editions of texts discussed)

Part One: Texts and Contexts

• Chapter 1: Byzantine Poetry in Context
  • The Nature of Byzantine Poetry
  • The Byzantine Epigram
  • Poets and Patrons
  • Poets and Public
• Chapter 2: Collections of Poems
  • Mauropous' Poetry Book
  • Byzantine Collections of Poems
  • Two Late Ninth-Century Collections of Verse Inscriptions
  • Byzantine Anthologies
  • Epigram Cycles
• Chapter 3: Anthologies and Anthologists
  • Constantine Cephalas (and his role in creating the Palatine Anthology)
  • The Making of Anthologies

Part Two: Epigrams in Context

• Chapter 4: A Short History of the Byzantine Epigram
  • Definition and Evolution of the Epigram
• Chapter 5: Epigrams on Works of Art
  • On Icons, Mosaics, Frescoes, etc.
• Chapter 6: Book Epigrams
  • Poems inscribed in or on books, commenting on the text, author, patron, or scribe
• Chapter 7: Epitaphs
  • Funerary Epigrams and Commemoration
• Chapter 8: Gnomic Epigrams
  • Proverbial or moralizing verses
• Chapter 9: The Power of the Written Word

Appendices (for Volume One)

• The Poems of John Geometres

• The Poems of John Geometres Once Again

• John of Melitene

• Vat. Pal. gr. 367

• Two Anonymous Poets

• The Contents of Par. Suppl. gr. 690

• George of Pisidia

• Verse Inscriptions (Inventory of those surviving in original context)

• Dedicatory Book Epigrams

• AP I, 37-89 (Analysis of a section of the Palatine Anthology)

• References

• Indices (Epigrams and Poems, Manuscripts, General Index)

Volume Two: Poems in Context

• Abbreviations
• Primary Sources

Part Three: Poems in Context (This part covers other poetic genres beyond the epigram)

• Chapter 10: Encomiastic Poetry
  • Praise poems, panegyrics (e.g., historical epic)
• Chapter 11: Ekphrasis and Periegesis
  • Detailed descriptions of works of art, buildings, or journeys
• Chapter 12: Ethopoetic Monologues and Dialogues
  • Speeches in character, representing a particular ethos or emotion
• Chapter 13: Monodies
  • Laments or solo songs of sorrow
• Chapter 14: Songs of Love and Marriage
  • Erotic poetry, epithalamia (wedding songs)
• Chapter 15: Satires and Invectives
  • Humorous, critical, or abusive poetry
• Chapter 16: Diatribic Experiments
  • More informal, essay-like, or polemical verses
• Chapter 17: Hymns, Prayers and Poems to Oneself
  • Religious and personal devotional poetry
• Chapter 18: Didactic and Paraenetic Poetry
  • Instructional or moralizing verses
• Chapter 19: Metaphrasis
  • Rewriting of existing texts in verse
• Chapter 20: Oracles, Riddles and Dream Keys
  • Poetic forms dealing with prophecy, puzzles, and dreams

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