Michael Psellos on Literature and Art: A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics (Michael Psellos in Translation) [1 ed.] 0268100489, 9780268100483
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Table of contents :
Cover
Michael Psellos on Literature and Art
Title
Copyright
Contents
Note to the Reader
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
General Introduction
PART ONE. ON LITERATURE: RHETORIC AND ΛΟΓΟΙ
Introduction to Part One
1 Synopsis of the Rhetorical Forms, based on Hermogenes’ On Forms
Translation (in collaboration with Christopher M. Geadrities)
2 Synopsis of Rhetoric in Verses, based on the Hermogenian Corpus
Translation
3 On Literary Composition, based on Dionysios of Halikarnassos’ On Composition
Translation
4 On Rhetoric, based on Longinos’ Art of Rhetoric
Translation
5 On Tragedy
Translation
6 On the Different Styles of Certain Writings: A Rhetor’s Canon
Translation
7 The Styles of Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, Chrysostom, and Gregory of Nyssa
Translation
8 An Encomium of Gregory of Nazianzos’ Style
Translation
9 Two Lectures on Gregory of Nazianzos: Theol. I 19 (on Or. 40.24) and 98 (on Or. 43.1)
Translation
10 On Saint John Chrysostom
Translation (in collaboration with Christopher M. Geadrities)
11 To One Asking “Who Wrote Verse Better, Euripides Or Pisides?”
Translation
12 A Comparison of the Novels of Heliodoros and Achilleus Tatios
Translation
13 Encomium for Kyr Symeon Metaphrastes
Translation
14 Encomium for the Monk Ioannes Kroustoulas Who Read Aloud at the Holy Soros
Translation
PART TWO. ART AND AESTHETICS
Introduction to Part Two
15 On Perception and Perceptibles
Translation
16 On Beauty and On Intelligible Beauty
Translation
17 To the Emperor Doukas, Regarding the Inscription
Translation (in collaboration with Demetrios Kritsotakis)
18 On Ancient Works of Art (Or. min. 33 and 34)
Translation
19 Ekphrasis of the Crucifixion
Translation
20 Discourse on the Miracle that Occurred in the Blachernai Church
Translation
21 A Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God
Translation
22 The Empress Zoe and Christ Antiphonêtês
Translation
23 Select Letters on Art and Aesthetics
Critical Editions (by Stratis Papaioannou) and Translations (by Charles Barber, David Jenkins, and Stratis Papaioannou)
List of Rhetorical Terms
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Cover
Michael Psellos on Literature and Art
Title
Copyright
Contents
Note to the Reader
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
General Introduction
PART ONE. ON LITERATURE: RHETORIC AND ΛΟΓΟΙ
Introduction to Part One
1 Synopsis of the Rhetorical Forms, based on Hermogenes’ On Forms
Translation (in collaboration with Christopher M. Geadrities)
2 Synopsis of Rhetoric in Verses, based on the Hermogenian Corpus
Translation
3 On Literary Composition, based on Dionysios of Halikarnassos’ On Composition
Translation
4 On Rhetoric, based on Longinos’ Art of Rhetoric
Translation
5 On Tragedy
Translation
6 On the Different Styles of Certain Writings: A Rhetor’s Canon
Translation
7 The Styles of Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, Chrysostom, and Gregory of Nyssa
Translation
8 An Encomium of Gregory of Nazianzos’ Style
Translation
9 Two Lectures on Gregory of Nazianzos: Theol. I 19 (on Or. 40.24) and 98 (on Or. 43.1)
Translation
10 On Saint John Chrysostom
Translation (in collaboration with Christopher M. Geadrities)
11 To One Asking “Who Wrote Verse Better, Euripides Or Pisides?”
Translation
12 A Comparison of the Novels of Heliodoros and Achilleus Tatios
Translation
13 Encomium for Kyr Symeon Metaphrastes
Translation
14 Encomium for the Monk Ioannes Kroustoulas Who Read Aloud at the Holy Soros
Translation
PART TWO. ART AND AESTHETICS
Introduction to Part Two
15 On Perception and Perceptibles
Translation
16 On Beauty and On Intelligible Beauty
Translation
17 To the Emperor Doukas, Regarding the Inscription
Translation (in collaboration with Demetrios Kritsotakis)
18 On Ancient Works of Art (Or. min. 33 and 34)
Translation
19 Ekphrasis of the Crucifixion
Translation
20 Discourse on the Miracle that Occurred in the Blachernai Church
Translation
21 A Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God
Translation
22 The Empress Zoe and Christ Antiphonêtês
Translation
23 Select Letters on Art and Aesthetics
Critical Editions (by Stratis Papaioannou) and Translations (by Charles Barber, David Jenkins, and Stratis Papaioannou)
List of Rhetorical Terms
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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