TY - BOOK ID - 7266324 TI - Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome: Semeioseis gnomikai 27–60 PY - 2016 VL - 70 SN - 00816450 SN - 9789173468893 9173468894 9173468908 PB - Gothenburg, Sweden Kriterium DB - UniCat KW - Authors, Classical KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - History KW - Metochites, Theodoros, KW - Philosophy KW - Greece KW - Historiography KW - Philosophie ancienne KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Empire byzantin KW - Civilization KW - Civilisation KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - Classical texts KW - Authors, Classical - History - Sources KW - Rhetoric, Ancient - History - Sources KW - Philosophy, Ancient - History - Sources KW - Metochites, Theodoros, - d. 1332 - Translations into English KW - Metochites, Theodoros, - d. 1332 - Philosophy KW - Greece - Historiography KW - Metochites, Theodoros, - d. 1332 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7266324 AB - "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 presented in the introduction. P (Par. gr. 2003, Paris) and M (Marc. gr. 532, Venice) were both written in the early fourteenth century; E (Scor. gr. 248, Escorial) is a sixteenth-century copy of M.After the edition, with accompanying English translation and notes, the book is concluded with a bibliography and three indexes: of quoted passages, Greek words, and Greek names.Several of the essays in this volume contain laments on the reduced state of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), and on the vicissitudes of human life and fortune. A group of short essays describe the pleasure of beholding Creation and one of the longest discusses the pros and cons of having been born, i.e. of life." ER -