Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome: Semeioseis gnomikai 27-60

"A critical edition, with English translation and notes, of chapters 27-60 of the Semeioseis gnomikai ("Sententious notes"), a collection of 120 essays by the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (1270-1332). The edition is based on three manuscripts, which are briefly...

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Main Author: Hult, Karin (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Gothenburg, Sweden Kriterium 2016
Subjects:
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