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Four Byzantine Novels
Theodore Prodromos
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Description for Four Byzantine Novels
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Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world – novels – since late antiquity. Four members of the Byzantine intelligentsia produced for the entertainment of their colleagues, their aristocratic patrons, and not least themselves, pastiches in verse and prose of the romantic tales of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus. These novels are perhaps the most attractive, as well as the most unexpected, literary products of the Byzantine millennium. More than one of the four novels translated here was well known in Renaissance Europe, but all have been largely neglected by later ... Read more
Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world – novels – since late antiquity. Four members of the Byzantine intelligentsia produced for the entertainment of their colleagues, their aristocratic patrons, and not least themselves, pastiches in verse and prose of the romantic tales of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus. These novels are perhaps the most attractive, as well as the most unexpected, literary products of the Byzantine millennium. More than one of the four novels translated here was well known in Renaissance Europe, but all have been largely neglected by later ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318252
SKU
V9781846318252
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About Theodore Prodromos
Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys was Emeritus Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, University of Oxford.
Reviews for Four Byzantine Novels
Reviews'A landmark work. Original and authoritative scholarship.' Roderick Beaton 'This beautifully edited volume does important work in filling in some of the missing links in understanding between late Antique and Early Renaissance prose fiction writing, between the work of Heliodorus or Achilles Tatius and that of Cervantes or Rabelais. Jeffreys’s excellent translation and helpful footnoting bring the old texts ... Read more