Studies on Byzantine Literature of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

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Studies on Byzantine Literature of the Eleventh and Twelfth CenturiesByzantine literature is often regarded as little more than an agglomeration of stereotyped forms and generic conventions which allows no scope for individual thought or expression. Accordingly, histories of Byzantine literature tend to focus on the history of genres. The essays in this book challenge the traditional view. They attempt to show the coherence and individuality not of the genre but of author. By careful analysis of all the works of a

they seem to have nothing in common

for example with moral virtues

With colour and b&w plates and b&w illustrations in text

and about native Egyptian

known chiefly in Armenian and Syriac versions of the original Greek

Louis MacNeice (Aeschylus's Agamemnon) and Ted Hughes (Ovid's Pygmalion)

is that she claimed her freedom

where eye witnesses could be interviewed and facts checked

the most important thing is to rehabilitate the innocent

then the naval clash in the Great Harbour

Usher has gathered a healthy litter of selections that reveal some of the ways Greeks and Romans thought about everything from lions

In addition there has been renewed interest in the role played by novelistic and rhetorical writing in the Greek culture of the Roman Empire more broadly

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