The Byzantine Sinbad / Michael Andreopoulos ; translated by Jeffrey Beneker and Craig A. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andreopōlos, Michaēl, active 11th century, translator.

Beneker, Jeffrey, translator.

Gibson, Craig A., 1968- translator.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 67.

Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; DOML 67

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Syriac

Subjects (All):

Fables, Syriac--Translations into Greek.

Fables, Syriac.

Byzantine literature.

Book of Sindbad.

Genre:

Early works.

Translations.

Physical Description:

xxii, 295 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

Texts in Greek with English translations on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.

Summary:

"The figure of the philosopher Sinbad, rendered in Greek as Syntipas, was introduced into the Byzantine literary tradition in the late eleventh century through two works translated from Syriac into Greek by Michael Andreopoulos. Both of these works, The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher (BSP) and a collection of sixty-two fables (Fables), are contained in this volume. Taken together, the BSP and Fables represent the character and the wisdom of Syntipas as they would become known to Byzantine readers. Although Andreopoulos translated both texts in the Middle Ages, they are distantly related to earlier Greek traditions as old as the fourth century BCE and, more immediately, to a complex development of medieval wisdom literature written in Persian, Arabic, and Syriac. The BSP and Fables made their way into Greek by different paths, but once united by Andreopoulos's translations, they were probably assumed to belong together. Of the three oldest manuscripts that form the basis of our Greek texts, two transmit both the story of Syntipas and the fables that were attributed to him"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher

The Fables of Syntipas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290) and index.

Contains:

Fables of Syntipas.

ISBN:

9780674251472

0674251474

OCLC:

1198017576

Publisher Number:

99987829519