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Orationes funebres

Michael Psellus

Herausgegeben von: Ioannis Polemis

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Buch 2014

Volumen 1 Orationes funebres

Volumen 1

In der Reihe Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110353754
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034705-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035375-4
ISBN:: 9783110374278
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Philologie
Fachgebiet:: Griechische Autoren
Fachgebiet:: Byzantinistik
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Byzantinistik
Fachgebiet:: Theologie und Religion
Fachgebiet:: Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters
Verlag:: De Gruyter