Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians - Texts in Translation, With Introductions and Notes

Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians includes translations of texts written by Byzantines on specific ancient historians. Each translated text is accompanied by an introduction and notes to highlight the specific context and purpose of its composition. In order to present a rounded picture of the reception of Greek historiography in Byzantium, a wide range of genres have been considered, such as poems and epigrams, essays, personalized scholia, and commentaries. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians is therefore an important resource for scholars and students of ancient history.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction

1. Xenophon in Byzantium and the coded poem for Leon VI


2. The Excerpta historica of Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos


3. The Scholia on the Zosimos manuscript


4. Ioannes Tzetzes’ verse scholia on Thucydides


5. Scholia on Diodoros of Sicily by Niketas Choniates and others


6. Theodoros Metochites and the Greek Historians


7. Ioannes Kanaboutzes’ Commentary on the Roman Antiquities of Dionysios of Halikarnassos

Bibliography

About the author

Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at the Ohio State University. His areas of expertise include Byzantine studies and Greek historiography.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Kaldellis, Kaldellis Anthony
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2015
• EAN: 9780415732321
• ISBN: 978-0-415-73232-1
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Classical Translations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Classical texts, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, History: theory and methods