Four Byzantine Novels - Theodore Prodromos, Rhodanthe Dosikles; Eumathios Makrembolites,

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. This book marks the English translation, placing them and their writers in their literary and historical contexts.

Summary

English translations of four mid twelfth-century novels from Constantinople, with notes and commentary.

Product details

• Authors: Charikles, Drosilla, Niketas Eugenianos, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Elizabeth (TRN) Jeffreys, Eumathios Makrembolites, Constantine Manasses, Theodore Prodromos, Theodore Prodromus
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Jeffreys (Editor), Elizabeth Jeffreys (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2012
• EAN: 9781846318252
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-825-2
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Liverpool University Press - T; Translated Texts for Byzantinists; Translated Texts for Byzantini; Liverpool University Press - T
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity