Satire in the Middle Byzantine Period : The Golden Age of Laughter?

This volume explores various forms, functions and meanings of satirical texts written in the Middle Byzantine period.

Contents

1 It is Difficult Not to Write Satire: A Brief Introduction to the Satirical Mode

Part 1 Traditions, Approaches, and Definitions
2 The Fortune of Lucian in Byzantium
3 Laughter, Derision, and Abuse in Byzantine Verse
4 Parody in Byzantine Literature

Part 2 Forms and Functions
5 Satirical Elements in Hagiographical Narratives
6 Political Satire
7 Parody in Byzantine Art
8 The Cicada and the Dung Beetle

Part 3 Satire as a Philological Endeavor
9 The Power of Old and New Logoi: The Philopatris Revisited
10 A Satire Like No Other: Pseudo-Lucian’s Charidemos and Its Traditions
11 The Consolation of Philology: Anacharsis or Ananias

Part 4 Komnenian Satire: A Golden Age?
12 Playwright, Satirist, Atticist: The Reception of Aristophanes in 12th-Century Byzantium
13 Satirical Modulations in 12th-Century Greek Literature
14 Satire in the Komnenian Period: Poetry, Satirical Strands, and Intellectual Antagonism
15 “For Old Men Too Can Play, Albeit More Wisely So”: The Game of Discourses in the Ptochoprodromika
16 Afterword

Appendix: Nikephoros Basilakes on His Own Satirical Writings
Bibliography
Index


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