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Cover 1 Acknowledgments 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Series Introduction 8 Volume Introduction 10 Section A. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives 12 1. From Ephrem to Romanos 12 2. Wandering Poets: A Literary Movement in Byzantine Egypt 25 3. The Sixth Sibylline Oracle as a Literary Hymn 66 4. On the Imitation (Mimesis) of Antiquity in Byzantine Literature 91 Section B. Registers and Styles 114 5. The Language of Byzantine Literature 114 6. The Oral Background of Byzantine Popular Poetry 145 7. The Function and Evolution of Byzantine Rhetoric 190 8. Levels of Style in Byzantine Literature 210 Section C. "The Saint's Life" 234 9. The "Low Level" Saint's Life in the Early Byzantine World 234 10. Imperial Panegyric: Rhetoric and Reality 246 11. Byzantine Hagiography and Sex in the Fifth to Twelfth Centuries 256 12. Byzantine Descriptions of Works of Art 269 Section D. Literary Renaissance 312 13. The Poverty of Écriture and the Craft of Writing: Towards a Reappraisal of the Prodromic Poems 312 14. Poetic Justice in the Patriarchate: Murder and Cannibalism in the Provinces 352 15. Honour among Romaioi: The Framework of Social Values in the World of Digenes Akri

Author

Gregory Nagy

Published

2013

Language

EN