Overview

This is the first volume to explore the commentaries on ancient texts produced and circulating in Byzantium. It adopts a broad chronological perspective (from the twelfth to the fifteenth century) and examines different types of commentaries on ancient poetry and prose within the context of the study and teaching of grammar, rhetoric, philosophy and science. By discussing the exegetical literature of the Byzantines as embedded in the socio-cultural context of the Komnenian and Palaiologan periods, the book analyses the frameworks and networks of knowledge transfer, patronage and identity building that motivated the Byzantine engagement with the ancient intellectual and literary tradition.

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Author:   Baukje van den Berg ,  Divna Manolova (University of York) ,  Przemysław Marciniak (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9781316514658

ISBN 10:   131651465
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   08 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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.

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Baukje van den Berg is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at Central European University. Divna Manolova is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of York and the University of Southern Denmark. Przemysław Marciniak is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

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