Orationes funebres. / Volumen 1, : Orationes funebres ; Volumen 1.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Classics and Near East Studies 2000 - 2014
• VerfasserIn: Michael Psellus,
• HerausgeberIn: Polemis, Ioannis,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: Ancient Greek
• Series: Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana , Volumen 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)

This is the first edition of ten Funeral Orations of Michael Psellos based on all the manuscripts preserving those works and accompanied by a full apparatus fontium and the necessary critical apparatus. Some of those texts had been published by the Greek scholar Konstantinos Sathas at the end of the XIX c. Those editions hardly correspond to the contemporary standards. The same applies to several more recent editions, prepared by P. Gautier, which also leave much to be desired. The most important texts of our collection are the funeral orations for the patriarchs Michael Keroullarios, Konstantinos Leichoudes and John Xiphilinos, a personal friend of Michael Psellos. All the texts offer valuable details concerning Psellos’s early life; at the same time they constitute an important testimony to the survival of the Late Antique Rhetoric in XI c. Byzantium. They constitute a necessary supplement to Psellos’s more famous work, his Chronography, verifying and shedding a new light on the events narrated there.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- HOC VOLVMINE CONTINENTVR -- PREFATIO -- CONSPECTVS LIBRORVM -- COMPENDIA ET SIGLA -- ORATIO 1. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐγκωμιαστικὸς εἰς τὸν μακαριώτατον πατριάρχην κῦρ Μιχαὴλ τὸν Κηρουλλάριον -- ORATIO 2. Ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὸν ὁσιώτατον κῦρ Κωνσταντῖνον πατριάρχην Κωνσταντινουπόλεως τὸν Λειχούδην -- ORATIO 3. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπιτάφιος εἰς τὸν μακαριώτατον πατριάρχην κῦρ Ἰωάννην τὸν Ξιφιλῖνον -- ORATIO 4. Ἐπιτάφιος εἰς Νικήταν μαΐστωρα τῆς σχολῆς τοῦ ἁγίου Πέτρου -- ORATIO 5. Εἰς τὸν σοφώτατον μητροπολίτην Μελιτηνῆς -- ORATIO 6. Ἑτέρα μονῳδία εἰς τὸν βασιλέα κῦρ Ἀνδρόνικον τὸν Δούκαν -- ORATIO 7. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ μονῳδία εἰς τὸν βεστάρχην Γεώργιον τὸν τοῦ ἀκτουαρίου -- ORATIO 8. Ἐπιτάφιος εἰς (Ἀναστάσιον) -- ORATIO 9. Μονῳδία ἐπὶ Ῥωμανῷ ῥαιφερενδαρίῳ -- ORATIO 10. Ἐγκώμιον εἴς τινα Νικόλαον μοναχὸν γενόμενον καθηγούμενον τῆς ἐν τῷ Ὀλύμπῳ μονῆς τῆς Ὡραίας Πηγῆς -- INDEX LOCORVM -- INDEX NOMNVM PROPRIORVM -- INDEX VERBORVM MEMORABILIORVM -- INITIA