Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 7047
(formerly typ/4951)

	Κούρης ἀργυφέης καλλιστεφάνου τε Ῥοδάνθης
	καὶ κούρου Δοσικλῆος ἀγαπρεπέος τε καὶ ἐσθλοῦ
	ταῦτα, φυγαί τε πλάναι τε κλυδώνων οἴδματα, λῃσταί,
	ἀργαλέαι στροφάλιγγες, ἐρωτοτόκοι μελεδῶνες,
	δεσμά τ' ἀλυκτοπέδαι τε καὶ ὀρφνοφόροισι μελάθροις
	εἱρκτοσύναι, θυσίαι τε παναισχέες, ἄλγεα πι[κρά],
	φαρμακόεντα κύπελλα καὶ ἁρμονίης παραλύσεις,
	ἒν δὲ γάμος τε λέχος τε καὶ ἱμερόεντες ἔρωτες.

Text source	P. Agapitos 2000, Poets and painters: Theodoros Prodromos' dedicatory verses of his novel to an anonymous Caesar, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 50, 173-185: 175-176
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Theodore Prodromos (12th c.) - PBW: Theodoros/25001/
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Rhodanthe and Dosikles
Tag(s)	Hypothesis Introduction to the subject Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	These [are the adventures] of the silvery girl Rhodanthe with the lovely garland and of the valiant and comely youth Dosikles, the flights and wanderings and tempests and billows, brigands, grievous eddies, sorrows that give rise to love, chains and indissoluble fetters and imprisonments in gloomy dungeons, grim sacrifices, bitter grief, poisoned cups and paralysis of joints, and then marriage and the marriage bed and passionate love. Language English Source(s) E. Jeffreys, 2012, Four Byzantine Novels, Liverpool: 20
Comment	According to Agapitos (2000: 178-179), this epigram was written next to an illumination in the now lost dedication manuscript (offered to the patron) of Theodoros Prodromos’ ‘Rhodanthe and Dosiklos’, together with two other epigrams (cf. related types).
Bibliography	Primary I. Nilsson, N. Zagklas 2017, “Hurry up, reap every flower of the logoi!” The Use of Greek Novels in Byzantium, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 57, 1120-1148: 1132 Secondary E. Jeffreys, 2012, Four Byzantine Novels, Liverpool: 7-9
Number of verses	8
Occurrence(s)	[26367] κούρ(ης) ἀργυφέ(ης) καλλιστεφάν(ης) τε ῥοδάνθ(ης) [1251-1325] HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 43 [1251-1325] (f. 38v) (8 verses)
Related type(s)	[7043] Καῖσαρ ἐμέ, ξυνὰ γὰρ ἀγαθὰ σφετερίζομαι αὐτός (14 verses) (Same cycle) [7044] Θευδώρου Προδρόμοιο, τὰ δείματο χείρ τε νόος τε (2 verses) (Same cycle)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Paratexts of the Bible (Pinakes), 19109 Vassis ICB 2005, 416: "Theod. Prodromus, Ad caesarem quendam epigr. dedicatorium de Rhodanthes et Dosiclis fabula"
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