Chapter 3 Epistolarity in Twelfth-century Byzantine Poetry Singing Praises and Asking Favors in absentia

• প্রধান লেখক: Zagklas, Nikos (auth)
• বিন্যাস: বৈদ্যুতিক গ্রন্থের অধ্যায়
• ভাষা: ইংরেজি
• প্রকাশিত: Taylor & Francis 2021
• বিষয়গুলি: Literature: history & criticism; Literary Criticism, Mediterranean Literature, Poetry, Greek literature
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

সংক্ষিপ্ত

Letters were an important medium of everyday communication in the ancient Mediterranean. Soon after its emergence, the epistolary form was adopted by educated elites and transformed into a literary genre, which developed distinctive markers and was used, for instance, to give political advice, to convey philosophical ideas, or to establish and foster ties with peers. A particular type of this genre is the letter cast in verse, or epistolary poem, which merges the form and function of the letter with stylistic elements of poetry. In Greek literature, epistolary poetry is first safely attested in the fourth century AD and would enjoy a lasting presence throughout the Byzantine and early modern periods. The present volume introduces the reader to this hitherto unexplored chapter of post-classical Greek literature through an anthology of exemplary epistolary poems in the original Greek with facing English translation. This collection, which covers a broad chronological range from late antique epigrams of the Greek Anthology to the poetry of western humanists, is accompanied by exegetical commentaries on the anthologized texts and by critical essays discussing questions of genre, literary composition, and historical and social contexts of selected epistolary poems.

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