Overview

This is the first edition of ten Funeral Orations of Michael Psellos based on all the manuscripts preserving those works and accompanied by a full apparatus fontium and the necessary critical apparatus. Some of those texts had been published by the Greek scholar Konstantinos Sathas at the end of the XIX c. Those editions hardly correspond to the contemporary standards. The same applies to several more recent editions, prepared by P. Gautier, which also leave much to be desired. The most important texts of our collection are the funeral orations for the patriarchs Michael Keroullarios, Konstantinos Leichoudes and John Xiphilinos, a personal friend of Michael Psellos. All the texts offer valuable details concerning Psellos’s early life; at the same time they constitute an important testimony to the survival of the Late Antique Rhetoric in XI c. Byzantium. They constitute a necessary supplement to Psellos’s more famous work, his Chronography, verifying and shedding a new light on the events narrated there.

Full Product Details

9783110347050

Table of Contents

Reviews

Die vorliegende Edition schafft sowohl praktisch als auch textkritisch einen besseren Zugang zu einer groeren Anzahl wichtiger Texte des Michael Psellos und ist daher zu begruen. Rudolf Stefec in: Gymnasium. Zeitschrift fur Kultur der Antike und Humanistische Bildung Band 123 (2016) Heft 2, 186-187

Die vorliegende Edition schafft sowohl praktisch als auch textkritisch einen besseren Zugang zu einer groeren Anzahl wichtiger Texte des Michael Psellos und ist daher zu begruen. Rudolf Stefec in: Gymnasium. Zeitschrift fur Kultur der Antike und Humanistische Bildung Band 123 (2016) Heft 2, 186-187

Author Information

I. Polemis, University of Athens.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available