John Geometres (10th century) is a key figure in the history of Byzantine poetry. His poems were first published in 1841 by J.A. Cramer, whose edition is based on a single manuscript and contains a large number of inaccuracies. Nonetheless, all the subsequent editors of John Geometres' poems have used this edition without consulting the manuscript(s) themselves. This book presents a new edition of his poems in hexameters and elegiacs, with critical apparatus, commentary and translation. It is a reference book not only for scholars of Byzantine literature, but also for historians and art historians of the Middle Byzantine period, enabling them to arrive at a better formed judgement of the poet and the cultural history of his time.
à la mémoire de mon père, Scato, et à ma mère, Marijke
Emilie van Opstall studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam. In 2006 she obtained a Ph.D. in Humanities at the same university. Currently, she is lecturer in Ancient Greek at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Illustrations
Avant-propos
Première partie: introduction
I. Jean Géomètre : le personnage historique
1 Esquisse biographique
2 Liste des oeuvres
3 Paternité des poèmes des manuscrits Paris. suppl. gr. 352 et Vat. gr. 743
II. La poésie au Xe siècle
1 La renaissance culturelle des IXe et Xe siècles
2 La fin du Xe siècle
3 Thématique
4 Sujet lyrique
5 Public et art plastique
III. Langue littéraire
1 Introduction
2 Vocabulaire et morphologie: les modèles
3.1 Verbe: les modes
3.2 Verbe : l’aspect verbal
4 Figures et tropes rhétoriques
IV. Prosodie et Métrique
1 Introduction
Hexamètres et distiques élégiaques chez Jean Géomètre
2 Prosodie
3 Métrique
4 Accentuation
V. Histoire de la réception
VI. Description des principaux manuscrits
VII. Principes de l’édition
Deuxième partie: les poèmes en hexamètres et en distiques élégiaques
Appendice. Liste des poèmes de Jean Géomètre
Planches 1–11
Bibliographie
Index rerum et nominum
Index locorum
Index verborum graecorum
Scholars of Byzantine literature, as well as historians and art historians of the Middle Byzantine period.