This volume on Greek synchronic etymology offers a set of papers evidencing the cultural significance of etymological commitment in ancient and medieval literature. The four sections illustrate the variety of approaches of the same object, which for Greek writers was much more t…
This volume on Greek synchronic etymology offers a set of papers evidencing the cultural significance of etymological commitment in ancient and medieval literature. The four sections illustrate the variety of approaches of the same object, which for Greek writers was much more t…
Bd.1: "Epigramme spielen innerhalb des literarischen Schaffens der Byzantiner eine wichtige Rolle. In nicht geringer Anzahl (mehr als 1000 Stück) sind diese auch heute noch inschriftlich erhalten, sei es auf Fresken, Mosaiken, Ikonen, auf so genannten Objekten der Kleinkunst und…
Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world - novels - since late antiquity. Four members of the Byzantine intelligentsia produced for the entertainment of their colleagues, their aristocratic pa…