An unpublished poem on Porphyry

This paper offers an editio princeps, an English translation and a commentary of an interesting epigram on Porphyry, the commentator of Aristotle. The epigram was transcribed in Vat. Reg. 166 by Ioannes Malaxos (16th c.) and is ascribed to Petros Servilos, a poet unknown from other sources. The paper discusses the poem’s manuscript context, as well as its authorship, genre, content and function. Further, it attempts to shed light on the poem’s relation to Porphyry’s philosophy and his reception in Byzantine poetry

ByzRev 03.2021.035: lias Taxidis, The Ekphraseis in the Byzantine Literature of the 12th Century: (Hellenica 90). Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso 2021.

  Ilias Taxidis, The Ekphraseis in the Byzantine Literature of the 12th Century (Hellenica 90). Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso 2021. XXXVI, 276 pp. – ISBN: 978-88-3613-077-1. ISSN: 1825-3490 (€ 42.00)  Ilias Taxidis, The Ekphraseis in the Byzantine Literature of the 12th Century (Hellenica 90). Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso 2021. XXXVI, 276 pp. – ISBN: 978-88-3613-077-1. ISSN: 1825-3490 (€ 42.00

Ιωάννης Γεωμέτρης, ιαμβικά ποιήματα: κριτική έκδοση, μετάφραση και σχόλια

The main purpose of my PhD dissertation was the critical edition, translation and annotation of 236 iambic poems of John Geometres. Τhese poems deal with both secular and Christian themes: for instance, there are poems devoted to Christ, Mary, saints, relics, icons and others on Byzantine emperors, ancient writers and philosophers. As for their function, the majority of them intended to be verse inscriptions, book epigrams and laudatory poems. My edition was based on Paris. Suppl. gr. 352 and includes four parts: The first one is an introduction with chapters on the poet, poetic themes, literary sources, meter, manuscripts and the editorial principles. The second involves the critical edition of the poems and their Modern Greek translation. The next one is a commentary on linguistic, philological, historical, prosopographical and artistic matters and the final section contains three indices (Index nominum, Index verborum notabilium and Index locorum)

The reception of ancient Greek literature in the iambic poems of John Geometres

John Geometres lived in Constantinople during the second half of the tenth century AD and is one of the most representative authors of the so-called Macedonian Renaissance. This paper examines the reception of the classical tradition in Geometres’ iambic poems preserved in the codex Parisinus Suppl. gr. 352. The analysis is based on the poems, which are either dedicated to ancient Greek authors or contain material deriving from the ancient Greek literature. The paper explores interesting quotations, motifs, vocabulary and techniques that Geometres adopted from ancient Greek literature, and investigates his main literary sources as well as their function. This examination reveals the way Geometres perceived and reshaped his favorite classical models and also provides information about the revival of classical learning in the tenth century