Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have …
The eastern Mediterranean region is characterized by high seismicity which has been documented by instrumental data and historical reporting. Strong submarine or coastal …
The survival of ancient Greek historiography is largely due to its preservation by Byzantine copyists and scholars. This process entailed selection, adaptation, and commentary, which …
P Booth - Travaux et Mémoires, 2016 - ora.ox.ac.uk
In the period c. 634–41, an anonymous author sat down to compose a little-known collection of miracles associated with the cult of saints Cyrus and John at Menouthis, east of …
In den gentilen Verbänden der Übergangsphase von der Antike zum Mittelalter ist eine Vielzahl von duces bekannt, die herausgehobene Funktionen hatten. Trotz ihrer großen …
This “valuable” summary of every significant battle from Augustus to Justinian I is “an indispensable reference guide for any student of the Roman military”(The NYMAS Review) …
Julian, the last pagan emperor of the Roman empire, died in war in 363. In the Byzantine (that is, the Eastern Roman) empire, the figure of Julian aroused conflicting reactions …
J Boeten, M Janse - Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2018 - cambridge.org
This article considers the variation in the metres of the 'ὥσπερ ξένοι'epigrams, collected in the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE). In its canonical form, these epigrams …