TY - BOOK ID - 14634302 TI - Poems AU - Theodōros Metochitīs AU - Polemis, Ioannis. PY - 2017 VL - 26 83 SN - 9782503570396 2503570399 9782503570402 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Byzantine poetry. KW - Christian poetry, Byzantine. KW - Christian saints. KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Christian poetry, Byzantine KW - Byzantine poetry KW - Christian saints KW - Poésie chrétienne byzantine KW - Poésie byzantine KW - Saints chrétiens KW - Translations into English KW - Biography KW - Poetry KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Traductions anglaises KW - Biographies KW - Poésie KW - Ouvrages avant 1800 KW - Metochites, Theodoros, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - History and criticism. KW - Theodorus Metochita, KW - Gregory, KW - Influence. KW - 877.3 KW - 877.3 Byzantijnse literatuur KW - Byzantijnse literatuur KW - Saints KW - Canonization KW - Byzantine literature KW - Byzantine Christian poetry KW - Bogoslov, Grigoriĭ, KW - Bogoslov, Grigorije KW - Grégoire, KW - Gregor, KW - Gregorio, KW - Gregorio Nazianzeno, KW - Grēgorios, KW - Gregorios, KW - Gregorius, KW - Gregorius Nazianzenus, KW - Gregory Nazianzen, KW - Grigol, KW - Grigorie, KW - Grigoriĭ, KW - Grigoriĭ Bogoslov, KW - Ighrīghūriyūs, KW - Nazianz, Gregor von, KW - Nazianzen, Grigoriĭ, KW - Nazianzenus, Gregorius, KW - Nazianzus, Gregory of, KW - Sfântul Grigorie, KW - Богослов, Григорий, KW - Григорий, KW - Григорий Богослов, KW - Γρηγόριος, KW - Metochita, Theodore, KW - Metochita, Theodorus, KW - Métochite, Théodore, KW - Metochites, Theodore, KW - Metochites, Theodorus, KW - Theodore Metochita, KW - Théodore Métochite, KW - Theodore Metochites, KW - Theodoros Metochites, KW - Theodorus Metochites, KW - Theoleptos, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Poésie chrétienne byzantine KW - Poésie byzantine KW - Saints chrétiens KW - Poésie KW - History and criticism KW - Grego., KW - Nazian., Grego., KW - Translations into English. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14634302 AB - "Theodore Metochites (ca. 1270-1332), an important writer of Late Byzantium, composed twenty long Poems in dactylic verse, which constitute an unicum in Byzantine Literature. Some of them are clearly autobiographic, offering important details about their author's career, while others are devoted to some saints of the Byzantine church (St Athanasius of Alexandria and the three prelates Basil of Caesarea, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom). Some of them are addressed to close friends of Metochites (like the polymath Nikephoros Gregoras, or the church historian Nikephoros Xanthopoulos), asking for their advice or complaining about his own difficulties. Three of them are funerary Poems, extolling the virtues and mourning the death of persons close to the emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos, who was the protector and benefactor of Metochites. The last seven Poems are written in a more reflective mood, discussing the precariousness of human happiness and the inevitability of man's fall due to the adverse circumstances of his life. All those Poems are preserved in MS. Parisinus graecus 1776, which was written in all probability under Metochites' supervision. The translation is accompanied by notes clarifying the sense of difficult passages and giving references to the texts that inspired Metochites directly or to parallel passages in the works of Metochites himself, or other Greek and Byzantine authors."--Provided by publisher. ER -