Research topics

The project seeks to examine five central topics:

• the application of different literary genres and narrative techniques,
• the tradition and modification of pagan mythology and biblical narratives
• the implementation of rhetorical techniques of persuasion and visual representation
• the reflection of the emperor's political and spiritual agenda by means of narrative techniques, and
• the performative aspect of the poems which are designed to address a particular audience in a specific socio-cultural environment.

 Beginning of the iambic poem "In Bonum patricium" by George of Pisidia.

Codex Suppl. grec 690 f. 57v, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.