Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editor’s Note Charles Barber
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Art, Aesthetics, and Literature
- Part II Literature, Art, and Aesthetics
- II.1 Counting Down: Inventories Introduction
- II.2 Describing, Experiencing, Narrating: The Use of Ekphrasis Introduction
- II.2.1 Eustathios of Thessaloniki: Homeric Art Objects in the Parekbolai on the Iliad
- II.2.2 Constantine Manasses: Description of a Little Man
- II.2.3 John “Phokas” (Doukas): A Brief Ekphrasis of the Settlements from Antioch to Jerusalem, and the Lands of Syria, Phoenicia, and the Holy Land in Palestine
- II.2.4 Leo Megistos: A Relief of a Muse in Twelfth-Century Constantinople
- II.2.5 Manuel Philes: Manuel Philes’ Metaphrasis of the Verses of Lucian on the Painting Depicting the Wedding of Alexander
- ΙΙ.2.6 Philagathos of Cerami: The Decollation of the John the Baptist
- II.3 Speaking: Ethopoiia Introduction
- II.4 Instructing and Dedicating: Epigrams on Works of Art Introduction
- II.5 Reading: Book Epigrams Introduction
- II.6 Inscribing: Later Byzantine Epigraphic Culture Introduction
- II.7 Lamenting: Tomb Epigrams Introduction
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
II.2.5 - Manuel Philes: Manuel Philes’ Metaphrasis of the Verses of Lucian on the Painting Depicting the Wedding of Alexander
from II.2 - Describing, Experiencing, Narrating: The Use of Ekphrasis Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editor’s Note Charles Barber
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Art, Aesthetics, and Literature
- Part II Literature, Art, and Aesthetics
- II.1 Counting Down: Inventories Introduction
- II.2 Describing, Experiencing, Narrating: The Use of Ekphrasis Introduction
- II.2.1 Eustathios of Thessaloniki: Homeric Art Objects in the Parekbolai on the Iliad
- II.2.2 Constantine Manasses: Description of a Little Man
- II.2.3 John “Phokas” (Doukas): A Brief Ekphrasis of the Settlements from Antioch to Jerusalem, and the Lands of Syria, Phoenicia, and the Holy Land in Palestine
- II.2.4 Leo Megistos: A Relief of a Muse in Twelfth-Century Constantinople
- II.2.5 Manuel Philes: Manuel Philes’ Metaphrasis of the Verses of Lucian on the Painting Depicting the Wedding of Alexander
- ΙΙ.2.6 Philagathos of Cerami: The Decollation of the John the Baptist
- II.3 Speaking: Ethopoiia Introduction
- II.4 Instructing and Dedicating: Epigrams on Works of Art Introduction
- II.5 Reading: Book Epigrams Introduction
- II.6 Inscribing: Later Byzantine Epigraphic Culture Introduction
- II.7 Lamenting: Tomb Epigrams Introduction
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
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- Sources for Byzantine Art History , pp. 1231 - 1237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022