Four Byzantine novels
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Four Byzantine novels
（Translated texts for Byzantinists, v. 1）
Liverpool University Press, 2012
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4 Byzantine novels
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注記
Translated from the Ancient Greek
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-474) and indexes
収録内容
- Rhodanthe and Dosikles / Theodore Prodromos
- Hysmine and Hysminias / Eumathios Makrembolites
- Aristandros and Kallithea / Constantine Manasses
- Drosilla and Charikles / Niketas Eugenianos
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 Renaissance Europe, but all have been largely neglected by later generations of readers and scholars as insipid and derivative eroticism. This is regrettable since they antedate by several decades the works of Chretien de Troyes, the French father of the European novel. This Byzantine phase in the history of the genre, though not part of its central development, deserves exploration. Building on recent work which has begun to rehabilitate these texts, this book marks the first English translation of all four texts in one volume, placing them and their writers in their literary and historical contexts and opening up their world to all those interested in the novel and in European medieval literature.
LUP gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Dr Costas Kaplanis, alumnus of King's College London, who suggested the idea of the series to Professor Herrin and has underwritten the initial expenses.
目次
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Theodore Prodromos, Rhodanthe and Dosikles
Introduction
Translation
Eumathios Makrembolites, Hysmine and Hysminias
Introduction
Translation
Constantine Manasses, Aristandros and Kallithea
Introduction
Translation
Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla and Charikles
Introduction
Translation
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Persons and Places
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