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J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 971
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Text completely known |
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Critical text |
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| Person(s) |
- Poet
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Ephraim of Ainos < Thrace (13th c. - 14th c.) - PLP: III.6408
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| Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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| Subject(s) |
Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/
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| Translation(s) |
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I do not know what you say here, Choniates:
when writing you affirm that clarity is wise,
then you write like riddles and abysses.
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- English
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I do not know what you are saying here Choniates. You say that it is wise to write with clarity, but your writing is obscure and abysmal.
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- English
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A. Simpson, 2013, Niketas Choniates: a historiographical study, Oxford: 124
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I’ve no idea what you’re going on about here, Choniates.
You tell us that it’s wise to express yourself clearly, and
then proceed to write in riddles.
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- English
- Source(s)
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J. Davis 2010, Anna Komnene and Niketas Choniates ‘translated’: the 14th-century Byzantine metaphrases, in R. Macrides (ed.), History as Literature in Byzantium. Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007, Farnham, 55-70: 57
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I do not understand what you allege, here, Choniates;
You declare in your writing that a learned style is the lucid style, and then you
compose in oracular and high-flown manner?
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- English
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I. Grigoriadis 1998, A study of the Prooimion of Zonaras’ Chronicle in relation to other 12th-century historical Prooimia, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 91(2), 327-344: 339
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| Comment |
The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 3.34-45. |
| Bibliography |
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J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 128, 168-170
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J. Davis 1996, A passage of the ‘Barbarograeca’ Metaphrase of Niketas Choniates’ Chronike Diegesis: retranslated or revised?, Symmeikta, 10, 127-142: 142
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J. Davis 2010, Anna Komnene and Niketas Choniates ‘translated’: the 14th-century Byzantine metaphrases, in R. Macrides (ed.), History as Literature in Byzantium. Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007, Farnham, 55-70: 57
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I. Grigoriadis 1998, A study of the Prooimion of Zonaras’ Chronicle in relation to other 12th-century historical Prooimia, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 91(2), 327-344: 339
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A. Kaldellis 2011, Paradox, reversal and the meaning of history, in A. Simpson, S. Efthymiadis (eds.), Niketas Choniates. A historian and a writer, Geneva, 75-99: 76
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A. Karpozilos, 2009, Βυζαντινοὶ ἱστορικοὶ καὶ χρονογράφοι. Τόμος Γ’ (11ος–12ος αἰ.), Athens: 711
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K. Krumbacher, 1897, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur von Justinian bis zum Ende des oströmischen Reiches (527–1453), Munich: 284
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A. Mai, G. Cozza-Luzi, 1853, Novae patrum bibliothecae (vol. 6.2), Rome: 33
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K. Sathas, 1894, Μεσαιωνική βιβλιοθήκη (vol. 7), Venice / Paris: σλγ'
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T. Urbainczyk, 2018, Writing about Byzantium: the History of Niketas Choniates, London - New York: 12
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J. Van Dieten, 1975, Nicetae Choniatae Historia (vol. 1), Berlin-New York: XXXII
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H. Wolf, 1557, Nicetae Acominati Choniatae, magni logothetae secretorum, inspectoris & iudicis veli, praefecti sacri cubiculi LXXXVI annorum historia, videlicet ab anno restitutae salutis circiter MCXVII, in quo Zonaras desinit, usque ad annum MCCIII, Libris XIX descripta … ex trium codicum laboriosa inter sese collatione, Basel: 1
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J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 936-938
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R. Maisano 1994, Varianti d’autore in Niceta Coniata?, in R. Romano (ed.), Problemi di ecdotica ed esegesi di testi bizantini e grecomedievali, Naples, 63-80: 78
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A. Simpson, 2013, Niketas Choniates: a historiographical study, Oxford: 124
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N. Zorzi, 2012, La Storia di Niceta Coniata, Libri I–VIII: Giovanni II e Manuele I Comneno. Materiali per un commento, Venice: XVII-XVIII
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| Number of verses |
3 |
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| Acknowledgements |
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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| Identification |
Vassis ICB 2005, 569: "Scholium marg. in Nicetae Choniatae historiam"
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| Permalink |
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