Resorting to Rare Sources of Antiquity: Nikephoros Basilakes and the Popularity of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
This article examines the Byzantine adaptation of the anecdote of the Lydian king Pythes within Nikephoros Basilakes’ Progymnasma 11 in relation to its earliest surviving source, Plutarch’s Mulierum virtutes 262D–263A. By looking at the ascription accompanying Basilakes’ progymnasma, it additionally...
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2014-02-01
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| Series: | Παρεκβολαί |
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| Online Access: | http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/parekbolai/article/view/4017 |