Michael Psellos on literature and art: a Byzantine perspective on aesthetics

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The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing to a wider public. Translation6 On the Different Styles of Certain Writings: A Rhetor's Canon Translation 7 The Styles of Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, Chrysostom, and Gregory of Nyssa Translation 8 An Encomium of Gregory of Nazianzos' Style Translation 9 Two Lectures on Gregory of Nazianzos: Theol. I 19 (on Or. 40.24) and 98 (on Or. 43.1) Translation 10 On Saint John Chrysostom Translation (in collaboration with Christopher M. Geadrities) 11 To One Asking "Who Wrote Verse Better, Euripides Or Pisides?" Translation 12 A Comparison of the Novels of Heliodoros and Achilleus Tatios. Translation13 Encomium for Kyr Symeon Metaphrastes Translation 14 Encomium for the Monk Ioannes Kroustoulas Who Read Aloud at the Holy Soros Translation PART TWO. ART AND AESTHETICS Introduction to Part Two 15 On Perception and Perceptibles Translation 16 On Beauty and On Intelligible Beauty Translation 17 To the Emperor Doukas, Regarding the Inscription Translation (in collaboration with Demetrios Kritsotakis) 18 On Ancient Works of Art (Or. min. 33 and 34) Translation 19 Ekphrasis of the Crucifixion Translation. 20 Discourse on the Miracle that Occurred in the Blachernai ChurchTranslation 21 A Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God Translation 22 The Empress Zoe and Christ Antiphonêtês Translation 23 Select Letters on Art and Aesthetics Critical Editions (by Stratis Papaioannou) and Translations (by Charles Barber, David Jenkins, and Stratis Papaioannou) List of Rhetorical Terms Bibliography List of Contributors Index.