Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians: Texts in Translation, with Introductions and Notes

ISBN-13: 9780367869199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str.

Anthony Kaldellis

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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