Byzantine commentaries on Ancient Greek texts, 12th-15th centuries / edited by Baukje van den Berg, Divna Manolova, Przemysław Marciniak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van den Berg, Baukje, editor.

Manolova, Divna, editor.

Marciniak, Przemysław, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine literature--History and criticism.

Byzantine literature.

Greek literature--History and criticism--Early works to 1800.

Greek literature.

Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life.

Byzantine Empire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 386 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Explores the rich tradition of commentaries on ancient texts produced and circulating in Byzantium from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Examines different types of commentaries on ancient poetry and prose within the context of the study and teaching of grammar, rhetoric, philosophy and science.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts

Grammar and Rhetoric, Poetry and Prose

Philosophy and Science

A Note on Style

References

Chapter 1 The Politics and Practices of Commentary in Komnenian Byzantium

Chapter 2 Forging Identities between Heaven and Earth: Commentaries on Aristotle and Authorial Practices in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantium

The Cultural and Material Aspects of Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Philosophical Commentaries

A Problem of Sources

Die Bücherverluste

The Power of Orality

Identities in Context

The Philosophy Professor and the Pious Compiler

Simplikios Wannabe: Eustratios of Nicaea's Methodology

Michael of Ephesus

Hidden Treasures: Unknown or Little-Known Philosophical Texts from the Komnenian Period

Between Heaven and Earth: Searching for the Philosophical Bios in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantium

Conclusion: Wearing Aristotelian Clothes to a Wedding

Chapter 3 Cultural Appropriation and the Performance of Exegesis in John Tzetzes' Scholia on Aristophanes

Exegesis from Performance to Manuscripts

Appropriating Jewish Culture

Authoritative Models and the Performance of Anti-Judaism

Chapter 4 Uncovering the Literary Sources of John Tzetzes' Theogony

The Poem's Relation to Hesiod and Homer

List of Indicative Borrowings

Tzetzes' Authorial Voice

Patronage and Didactic Aspects of the Poem

Conclusion

Chapter 5 Odysseus the Schedographer

About Schedography

Part One: Odysseus vs. Polyphemus

That Is, When the Proper Use of Schedography Can Save a Rhetor's Life (and Reputation)

Part Two: Odysseus vs. Circe.

That Is, When the Improper Use of Schedography Can Transform a Rhetor into a Pig

Conclusions

Chapter 6 Eustathios of Thessalonike on Comedy and Ridicule in Homeric Poetry

Homer, Father of Comedy

Ridicule with Dignity

Battlefield Abuse

The Excellent Man Uses Ridicule Sometimes

Chapter 7 Geography at School: Eustathios of Thessalonike's Parekbolai on Dionysius Periegetes

The Parekbolai

The Audience of the Parekbolai

Eustathios' Decisions as Exegete

Displaying the Parekbolai

Epilogue

Chapter 8 Painting and Polyphony: The Christos Paschon as Commentary

The Text

Play I The Crucifixion (lines 1-1133)

Play II The Burial (lines 1134-1905)

Play III The Resurrection (lines 1906-2531)

Have Some Medea, M'dear

Hyping Hippolytus

Rhesus Derivative

Back to the Bacchae

Painting and Polyphony

Source Texts and Trilogy

Chapter 9 Parodying Antiquity for Pleasure and Learning: The Idyll by Maximos Planoudes

Love and Homoerotic Elements

The Alterity of Otherworlds

Magic and the Marvellous

Literary Traditions and Planoudes' Scholarship

Reading the Idyll in Byzantium

Chapter 10 Teaching Poetry in the Early Palaiologan School: Manuel Holobolos' and John Pediasimos' Commentaries on Theocritus' Syrinx

The Syrinx: A Hellenistic Pattern-Poem

The Syrinx in the Palaiologan School: The Commentary of Manuel Holobolos

The Commentary of John Pediasimos

The Influence of Holobolos on Pediasimos

Chapter 11 Late Byzantine Scholia on the Greek Classics: What Did They Comment On? Manuel Moschopoulos on Sophocles' Electra

The Moschopoulean Comments on Sophocles as Textbooks for the Teaching of Greek: The Context

The Moschopoulean Comments on Sophocles and the Teaching of Syntax.

The Comments on Sophocles Preserved in the Moschopoulean Manuscripts

Dramaturgical Highlights in Sophocles' Electra: The Themes of Kairos and Kerdos in Medieval and Modern Readings

Comments in Comparison

List of Manuscripts and Abbreviations

Observations

Chapter 12 Theodora Raoulaina's Autograph Codex Vat. gr. 1899 and Aelius Aristides

Theodora Palaiologina Kantakouzene Raoulaina

Vat. gr. 1899 (= G in Pernot, A in Keil and Behr)

Exemplar

Theodora at Work

Edition of the Unedited Scholia to Ὑπὲρ Ῥητορικῆς Λόγος Α΄ &amp

Β΄ (Vat. gr. 1899, fols. 184r-234r)

Appendix I

Chapter 13 The Reception of Eustathios of Thessalonike's Parekbolai in Arsenios Apostolis' and Erasmus' Paroemiographic Collections

New Homeric Marginalia in Arsenios and Erasmus

Importing and Reusing Eustathian Materials

Eustathios' Reception in Renaissance Paroemiographers

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 23, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: van den Berg, Baukje Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th-15th Centuries

ISBN:

1-009-08576-X

1-009-09278-2

1-009-09205-7