156 pp. ex-library copy with label on spine and stamps, edges minimally bumped, else good and clean, text in Greek - English parallel edition, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300 original softcover (no dustjacket), Seller Inventory # 18092

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Theodore Metochites's Poems 'To Himself' Introduction, Text and Translation

Featherstone,, Jeffrey M:

Published by Verlag der �sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2000

ISBN 10: 3700128533 ISBN 13: 9783700128533

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Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfa�, Berlin, Germany

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, Taschenbuch. Condition: Sehr gut. 156 Seiten Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. "Famous today mostly for his patronage of the decoration of the Monastery of the Chora, Theodore Metochites had wanted to be remembered for his literary works. Prime Minister by day, scholar by night, he was called a living library by his protege Gregoras, but mocked as a corrupter of belles lettres by such friends as Xanthopoulos and enemies as Choumnos alike. None of Metochites s writings better prove both these assessments than his twenty Poems in hexametre. The present work presents a first edition and English translation of the last seven of the Poems, addressed by the author To Himself . Written on the eve and after his fall from power in 1328 and preserved for us in the very copy Metochites pored over during the years just before his death, these verses reveal thoughts common to many an exiled statesman, but also provide a glimpse - appropriately obscured, to be sure, with excessive preciosity - into the Late-Byzantine view of the world." ISBN 9783700128533 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 565. Seller Inventory # 1196008

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