Table of Contents

CONTENTS

• Foreword (7-8)
• Abbreviations (9-10)
• Primary Sources (11-16)

PART ONE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS

• 1. BYZANTINE POETRY IN KONTEXT (19-54)
• 2. COLLECTIONS OF POEMS (55-82)
• 3. ANTHOLOGIES AND ANTHOLOGISTS (83-128)

PART TWO: EPIGRAMS IN CONTEXT

• 4. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EPIGRAM (131-148)
• 5. EPIGRAMS ON WORKS OF ART (149-169)
• 6. BOOK EPIGRAMS (197-212)
• 7. EPITAPHS (213-240)
• 8. GNOMIC EPIGRAMS (241-270)
• 9. THE POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD (271-284)

APPENDICES

• 1. The Poems of John Geometres (287-296)
• 2. The Poems of John Geometres Once Again (297-304)
• 3. John of Melitene (305-316)
• 4. Vat. Pal. gr. 367 (317-324)
• 5. Two Anonymous Poets (325-328)
• 6. The Contents of Par. Suppl. gr. 690 (329-333)
• 7. George of Pisidia (334-337)
• 8. Verse Inscriptions (338-352)
• 9. Dedicatory Book Epigrams (353-359)
• 10. AP I, 37-89 (357-362)
  
   
• References (363-374)
• Indices  (375-390)