Studies in Byzantine Epitomes and the Greek Epitomizing Tradition

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73182-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 493, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature

Epitomes, or abridged books, were a constant feature of Byzantine intellectual life and book culture. From epitomes of Greek and Roman historians to medical texts to condensed works of law, epitomes provided professionals and intellectuals with convenient sources of information – or erudition – that met the needs of their post-antique world. This volume, the first to be devoted to Byzantine epitomes, traces the development of the Byzantine epitomizing tradition from antiquity to the fall of Constantinople, while also analysing several key examples in depth. Across eight case-studies, Byzantine epitomes emerge as often surprising products of times of intense intellectual activity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mallan, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Epitomes and Epitomators in Byzantium C.T. Mallan

Part 1 From Antiquity to Byzantium

1 The Greek Epitomizing Tradition in Antiquity: From Theopompus to the Age of Justinian C.T. Mallan

2 Ancient Epitomes in Photios’ Bibliotheca Laura Pfuntner

Part 2 Stockpiling Wisdom

3 Epitomizing Aristotle’s Organon Melpomeni Vogiatzi

4 Medical Epitomes in Byzantium Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann

5 Epitomes in Byzantine Law Marios Tantalos

Part 3 Transmitting Culture(s)

6 A Compiled Compilation: The Epitome of Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou

7 Xiphilinos’ Epitome of Cassius Dio Marion Kruse

8 George Gemistos Plethon and the History of Greece after Mantinea Jeffrey Beneker

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Mallan is an Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History and the ACIS Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia. His research interests include imperial Roman historiography and the reception of this tradition in Byzantium and beyond.

Contributors are: Jeffrey Beneker, Chrysanthos Chrysanthou, Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann, Marion Kruse, Laura Pfuntner, Marios Tantalos, Melpomeni Vogiatzi.