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Ptochoprodromos
Author(s) : Banev Guentcho Translation : Daskalaki Photini
For citation: Banev Guentcho, "Ptochoprodromos",Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, ConstantinopleURL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=12585>
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BYZANTINH ΛOΓOTEXNIA - Πτωχοπροδρομικά ποιήματα Ίδρυμα Μείζονος Ελληνισμού (Last visit: 13/3/2012) A brief presentation of the ptochoprodromic poems in the context od Byzantine vernacular literature (in Greek).
1. Introduction
2. The poet’s portrait
3. The manuscript tradition and the research
4. The issue of the ptochoprodromic poems
5. Dating
6. The poems
6.1. The first poem (the poor husband): “…to the Emperor Mavroiannes [John II]”
6.2. The second poem (the poor father): “…to the Sebastokrator”
6.3. The third poem (the scholar): “…to the emperor lord Manuel Komnenos” –the poverty of a scholar
6.4. The fourth poem (the unfortunate monk): “…to Manuel the Purple-born, the Komnenos”- satire of a Byzantine monastery
6.5. Other poems
6.6. Special characteristics of the poems (verse, style and language)
7. Evaluation
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