Psellus, Michael,

Michael Psellos on literature and art : a Byzantine perspective on aesthetics / edited by Charles Barber and Stratis Papaioannou. - Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xvi, 429 pages). - Michael Psellos in translation .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Translation6 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. Translation13 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. minutes 33 and 34); Translation; 19 Ekphrasis of the Crucifixion; Translation. 20 Discourse on the Miracle that Occurred in the Blachernai ChurchTranslation; 21 A Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God; Translation; 22 The Empress Zoe and Christ Antiphonętęs; 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.

The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing to a wider public.



9780268100506

2017016284


Aesthetics, Byzantine.
Art--Philosophy.
Literature--Philosophy.


Electronic Books.

BH137 / .M534 2017