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- Hedlund, Ragnar, et al.
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Theodor Metochites i den yttersta tiden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Olof Heilo (ed.), Vägar till Bysans. - Skellefteå : Artos & Norma bokförlag. - 9789172171237 ; , s. 105-113
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den bysantinske statsmannen Theodoros Metochites (1270-1332) ger i sina personligt skrivna essäer uttryck för stämningar som var rådande i Konstantinopel under hans tid: sorg över förlorade landområden, uppgivenhet inför sedernas förfall och bävan inför framtiden.
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- Hult, Karin, 1954
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Alexanderromanen
- 2018
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Ingår i: Alexanderlegenderna i tid och rum. Alexander den stores gränslösa historia / Karin Hult & Gunhild Vidén (red.).. - Stockholm : Appell. - 9789198406351 ; , s. 26-45
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- Hult, Karin, 1954
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Att leva i en stad utan murar: Theodoros Metochites om människans villkor
- 2005
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Ingår i: Bysantinska sällskapet. Bulletin. ; 23, s. 17-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- To live in a city without walls: Theodore Metochites on the human condition. The Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites in his essays, Semeioseis gnomikai, time and again returns to the topic of the uncertainty of fortune and the fragility of life and the human condition, illustrating this with sayings such as "We are living in a city without walls" [viz., because of death] and "It is impossible to find anyone living a life without sorrow", and a reference to "the wise king Solomon", i.e. the passage in Ecclesiastes which says that death is better than life. This pessimism has a long tradition in Greek literature, where it is found e.g. in the story of Cleobis and Biton in Herodotus and in tragedy, but also in Oriental wisdom literature (of which Ecclesiastes in an example). But although it is a literary topic, Metochites’ pessimism also appears genuine and heartfelt. When he enumerates the dangers of an elevated political position, we can say with hindsight that he predicts his own fall from power in 1328. In the second part of essay 58, Metochites enumerates a number of reasons (Christian and philosophical) why life, despite all its dangers and sorrows, is nevertheless preferable to death.
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- Hult, Karin, 1954
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Theodore Metochites as a literary critic
- 2004
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Ingår i: Interaction and isolation in late Byzantine culture : papers read at a colloquium held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 1-5 December, 1999. Ed. Jan Olof Rosenqvist (Transactions. Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 13). - Stockholm : Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. - 9186884123 ; , s. 44-56
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- Hult, Karin, 1954, et al.
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Theodore Metochites on Ancient Authors and Philosophy. Semeioseis gnomikai 1–26 & 71. A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, Notes, and Indexes. With a Contribution by Börje Bydén
- 2002
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The book contains a critical edition of 27 chapters of the Semeioseis gnomikai, a collection of 120 essays by the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (1270–1332). The edition is planned to appear in four volumes altogether. The book is divided into three parts, (1) an introduction, (2) the edition of the Greek text, with English translation and notes, (3) an essay by Börje Bydén. Also included are a bibliography, an index of passages from ancient authors, and indexes of Greek words and names. The introduction presents the three manuscripts used for the edition, Par. gr. 2003, Marc. gr. 532 (both of the early fourteenth century), and Scor. gr. 248, a sixteenth-century copy of the latter. This edition is the first critical edition of the text, meant to replace the 1821 edition by C. G. Müller and Th. Kiessling, which was based on an inferior manuscript. In the concluding essay, Börje Bydén examines a number of relevant passages in order to form a clearer picture of how the nature and purpose of the Semeioseis gnomikai may have been defined by Metochites and his contemporary audience.
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- Hult, Karin, 1954
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Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome. Semeioseis gnomikai 27–60. Critical edition with introduction, translation, notes, and indexes
- 2016
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- 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.
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