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The folly of old age in Byzantine and early Modern Greek literature
Neograeca Bohemica, 2020 This paper focuses on the folly of old age as a literary motif. It aims to demonstrate that the first appearance of the motif in Greek literature is not in the early 16th century vernacular poem Peri gerondos na mi pari koritsi, as is generally believed.
Markéta Kulhánková
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New “Russian Translation” of the Treatise “De Adminstrando Imperio” Amid Its Contemporary Studies
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020 Introduction. The article is a critical essay about an attempt to translate the Constantine’s treatise “De Administrando Imperio” into an artificially archaic “Pseudo-Slavic” language, made by R.A. Gimadeev. It is shown that his commentaries accompanying
Aleksei S. Shchavelev
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Contesting Conceptual Boundaries: Byzantine Literature and Its History
Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2015 The paper presents the problems of writing a history of Byzantine literature in the context of postmodern anxieties about canonization, authority and narrative histories of literature. An essential difficulty for such a project is the fact that Byzantine
Panagiotis A. Agapitos
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"Akritas" – Nikos Kazantzakis' Little-Known Unrealized Epic Project
Classica Cracoviensia, 2017 "Akritas" – Nikos Kazantzakis' Little-Known Unrealized Epic Project Kazantzakis’ Odyssey – apart from the abundance of philosophical as well as ideological influences of many different sources which the writer tried to unify into a universal ...
Michał Bzinkowski
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Визуальная теология, 2020 The article is devoted to the consideration of the origins and reasons for the spread of the iconography of ancient philosophers in Orthodox churches. Until now, unfortunately, this problem has not received the attention it deserves neither in European ...
Daniil Dorofeev / Даниил Юрьевич Дорофеев
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Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion [PDF]
, 2016 A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. The most spectacular of them is
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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Professor Oktawiusz Jurewicz as a Byzantinist (1926–2016) [PDF]
, 2016 The authors summarize the academic legacy of late Oktawiusz Jurewicz and his role as a leading Polish byzantinist of the second half of the 20th century.
Kompa, Andrzej, Leszka, Mirosław J.
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An Exploratory Spatial Analysis of the Churches in the Southern Mani Peninsula, Greece [PDF]
, 2019 The Mani Peninsula is home to hundreds of Orthodox Christian churches that were built within the last millennium. As in other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean countryside, the topological relationship between churches and settlements is a critical ...
Kalaycı, Tuna, Seifried, Rebecca M
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Byzantinism and Rationality: Julien Benda and Constantine Tsatsos
Peitho, 2017 This article examines the concept of Byzantinism that Julien Benda employed in his book La France Byzantine. In the fin-de-siècle European sensibility, Byzantinism was transferred from political to literary level, but Benda created an epistemological ...
George Arabatzis
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"The Milk of Birds": A Proverbial Phrase, Ancient and Modern, and its Link to Nature [PDF]
, 2017 A curious phrase from ancient Greek, ὀρνίθων γάλα, finds parallels in Latin as lac gallinaceum and in Modern Greek, as και του πουλιού το γάλα. While the Greek phrases translate as "(and) the milk of (the) bird(s)", the Latin translates as "henʼs milk".
Payne, Martha J.
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