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Book titles in the Suda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Barry Baldwin
Barry Baldwin
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The University of Calgary
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Extract

In his generally admirable account of the poets of early Byzantine Egypt, Alan Cameron reconstructs some of their (in his words) journalistic warfare on the basis of a supposed distinction between the use of εἰς and πρός in the titles of books and poems: εἰς denotes a work written in someone's honour, πρός something by way of discredit or refutation.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 103 , November 1983 , pp. 136 - 137
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1983

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References

1 ‘Wandering Poets: a literary movement in Byzantine Egypt’, Historia xiv (1965) 505–6Google Scholar.

2 Pfeiffer, R., History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford 1968) 133Google Scholar.

3 Jones, C. P., Plutarch and Rome (Oxford 1971) 35Google Scholar.

4 ‘The Patriarchal School at Constantinople in the Twelfth Century’, Byzantion xxxii (1962) 167–201Google Scholar; xxxiii (1963) 11–40, repr. in the author's Studies on Byzantine History, Literature, and Education (London 1977)Google Scholar.

5 Similar indifference from an earlier Byzantine period can be seen in the titles of consecutive eulogies by George of Pisidia (Poems 3 and 4, ed. L. Sternbach, WS xiii [1891] 1–62).

6 Cf. Suda E 3046 for the expression ἀποσκώπτων εἰς in reference to contemporary attacks on Hermogenes of Tarsus.

7 So regarded by Browning, R., ‘Ignace le diacre et la tragédie classique à Byzance’, REG lxxx (1968) 404–5Google Scholar; cf. Lemerle, P., ‘Thomas le Slave’, Travaux et Mémoires i (Paris 1965) 268Google Scholar, repr. in the author's Essais sur le monde byzantin (London 1980)Google Scholar. As possible convenience to other scholars, I may as well point out that Adler's ascription of the Suda's source for Ignatius to Hesychius of Miletus is, for obvious chronological reasons, absurd.