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Jean Géomètre
Poèmes en hexamètres et en distiques élégiaques. Edition, traduction, commentaire
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Emilie van Opstall
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English
Published/Copyright:
2008
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John Geometres (10th century) is a key figure in the history of Byzantine poetry. His poems were first published in 1841 by J.A. Cramer, whose edition is based on a single manuscript and contains a large number of inaccuracies. Nonetheless, all the subsequent editors of John Geometres' poems have used this edition without consulting the manuscript(s) themselves. This book presents a new edition of his poems in hexameters and elegiacs, with critical apparatus, commentary and translation. It is a reference book not only for scholars of Byzantine literature, but also for historians and art historians of the Middle Byzantine period, enabling them to arrive at a better formed judgement of the poet and the cultural history of his time.
à la mémoire de mon père, Scato,
et à ma mère, Marijke
à la mémoire de mon père, Scato,
et à ma mère, Marijke
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Emilie van Opstall studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam. In 2006 she obtained a Ph.D. in Humanities at the same university. Currently, she is lecturer in Ancient Greek at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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March 31, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9789047432586
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622
