Byzantijnse boekepigrammen / metrische parateksten: terminologie en classificatie

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Muski, Phrygiërs en koning Midas

The aim of this article is to discuss the thesis that the Muski and the Phrygians are the same people and that king Midas is identical to king Mita. The Muski are known only from Iron Age Assyrian chronicles. The oldest documents concerning the Muski show that they lived in northern Mesopotamia around 1165 BC. They flourished under the reign of Sargon II in the late 8th century BC, when their king Mita undertook military campaigns in the region of Neo-Hittite Tabal and Que. The Phrygians, in turn, find their origin in the Balkan. After their migration to Asia, possibly recorded in archaeology, they can be found as easterly as Hattuša and Tuwana. From an inscription of Midas City we know that Midas must be dated in the same period as Mita. It is remarkable that archaeology places the Phrygians in the same region where the Muski are located according to Assyrian documents. It would be strange that the Assyrians knew about the Muski, but were unaware of the Phrygians. Therefore, it can be argued that the Muski and the Phrygians were actually the same people. If this hypothesis is correct, then they possibly intermixed at some point in history, perhaps around the period of Mita/Midas. Nevertheless, due to the fragmentary state of the sources, a lot of uncertainty and speculation remains

Ascending the ladder : editio princeps of Four Poems on the Ladder of John Klimax: Bodleian Baroccianus 141

Four unedited paratexts on John Klimakos in dodecasyllables are preserved anonymously in Bodleian Baroccianus 141. I provide here a short introduction to Klimakos and the Ladder, a description of the manuscript and of the poems, the editio princeps, a translation, and a brief commentary

A twelfth-century cycle of four poems on John Klimax : a brief analysis

This chapter provides a short commentary on the cycle of four poems on John Klimax, edited in the preceding article. The main goal is to clarify the structure of the poems and to reveal their meaning by disclosing the most noteworthy intertextual references. The contribution is concluded by a discussion of the important influence of Gregory of Nazianzos on this cycle. For an extended commentary, focusing also on the syntactical peculiarities and providing a detailed analysis of the many intertextual references present in the cycle see R. Meesters, The Afterlife of John Klimax in Byzantine Book Epigrams: Edition, Translation and Commentary of Two Poetic Cycles (Ghent: PhD dissertation, 2017)