Jean Géomètre
Poèmes en hexamètres et en distiques élégiaques. Edition, traduction, commentaire
Biographical note
Emilie van Opstall studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam. In 2006 she obtained a Ph.D. in Humanities at the same university. Currently, she is lecturer in Ancient Greek at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Readership
Scholars of Byzantine literature, as well as historians and art historians of the Middle Byzantine period.
Table of contents
Illustrations
Avant-propos
Première partie: introduction
I. Jean Géomètre : le personnage historique
1 Esquisse biographique
2 Liste des oeuvres
3 Paternité des poèmes des manuscrits Paris. suppl. gr. 352 et Vat. gr. 743
II. La poésie au Xe siècle
1 La renaissance culturelle des IXe et Xe siècles
2 La fin du Xe siècle
3 Thématique
4 Sujet lyrique
5 Public et art plastique
III. Langue littéraire
1 Introduction
2 Vocabulaire et morphologie: les modèles
3.1 Verbe: les modes
3.2 Verbe : l’aspect verbal
4 Figures et tropes rhétoriques
IV. Prosodie et Métrique
1 Introduction
Hexamètres et distiques élégiaques chez Jean Géomètre
2 Prosodie
3 Métrique
4 Accentuation
V. Histoire de la réception
VI. Description des principaux manuscrits
VII. Principes de l’édition
Deuxième partie: les poèmes en hexamètres et en distiques élégiaques
Appendice. Liste des poèmes de Jean Géomètre
Planches 1–11
Bibliographie
Index rerum et nominum
Index locorum
Index verborum graecorum
Avant-propos
Première partie: introduction
I. Jean Géomètre : le personnage historique
1 Esquisse biographique
2 Liste des oeuvres
3 Paternité des poèmes des manuscrits Paris. suppl. gr. 352 et Vat. gr. 743
II. La poésie au Xe siècle
1 La renaissance culturelle des IXe et Xe siècles
2 La fin du Xe siècle
3 Thématique
4 Sujet lyrique
5 Public et art plastique
III. Langue littéraire
1 Introduction
2 Vocabulaire et morphologie: les modèles
3.1 Verbe: les modes
3.2 Verbe : l’aspect verbal
4 Figures et tropes rhétoriques
IV. Prosodie et Métrique
1 Introduction
Hexamètres et distiques élégiaques chez Jean Géomètre
2 Prosodie
3 Métrique
4 Accentuation
V. Histoire de la réception
VI. Description des principaux manuscrits
VII. Principes de l’édition
Deuxième partie: les poèmes en hexamètres et en distiques élégiaques
Appendice. Liste des poèmes de Jean Géomètre
Planches 1–11
Bibliographie
Index rerum et nominum
Index locorum
Index verborum graecorum
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