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This book analyses Zonaras' twelfth-century chronicle as both a literary composition and a historical account, concentrating on its composition, sources, and political, ideological, and literary background. Kampianaki aims to present it as a work which seamlessly merges the traditions of chronicle writing and classicizing historiography.
List of contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Note on transliteration, citations, and quotations
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1: John Zonaras: biography and oeuvre
- 2: The composition of the Epitome
- 3: Zonaras' working method and treatment of his sources
- 4: The political and ideological context of the Epitome
- 5: Zonaras' keen interest in Roman antiquity
- 6: Intellectual networks and intended readers
- 7: Readers' responses and the reception of the Epitome
- Overall conclusions
- Bibliography
About the author
Theofili Kampianaki is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham. She was previously a Research Fellow at the Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures. She holds a doctorate and a Master's from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Athens. She has written on the reception of Plutarch in Byzantium, and on the reception of Flavius Josephus in Medieval Greek and Latin literature. She has received scholarships from the University of Athens, the Alexander Onassis Foundation, and the A.G. Leventis Foundation.
Summary
This book analyses Zonaras' twelfth-century chronicle as both a literary composition and a historical account, concentrating on its composition, sources, and political, ideological, and literary background. Kampianaki aims to present it as a work which seamlessly merges the traditions of chronicle writing and classicizing historiography.
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With erudite philology and the meticulous examination of both Zonaras' careful and purposeful use of source material and the reception of his work by later authors both Roman and foreign, Kampianaki's scholarship lays avenues on which to take historical enquiry as readers of her book pick up the threads of her argument and exposition.
