Theodore Prodromos, Eumathios Makrembolites, Constantine Manasses, Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla, Charikles, Professor El
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...
Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world - novels - since late ...
Theodore Prodromos, Eumathios Makrembolites, Constantine Manasses, Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla, Charikles, Professor El
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...
Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world - novels - since late ...
