Byzantine Culture in Translation

Amelia Brown, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley 2008), is senior lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland in Australia. She works on Hellenic culture in Late Antiquity, and has published articles on Corinth, barbarians and Roman sculpture. Bronwen Neil, Ph.D. (ACU 2000), FAHA, is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University. She has published widely on early Christianity and Late Antiquity, and co-edited a number of volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor (2015).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductionAmelia Brown1 Narrating the Reign of Constantine in Byzantine ChroniclesRoger Scott2 Breaking Down Barriers: Eunuchs in Italy and North Africa, 400–620Michael Edward Stewart3 The Orient Express: Abbot John’s Rapid Trip from Constantinople to Ravenna c. AD 700Ann Moffatt4 Bang For His Buck: Dioscorides as a Gift of the Tenth-Century Byzantine CourtYvette Hunt5 Nikephoros Phokas as SuperheroJohn Burke6 Byzantine Religious Tales in Latin Translation: The Work of John of AmalfiJohn Duffy7 Translations from Greek into Latin and Arabic during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical TraditionMaria Mavroudi8 A Web of Translations: Planudes in Search of Human ReasonEva Anagnostou-Laoutides9 Translating Dorotheus of Gaza: From Gaza to Humanist EuropeMichael Champion10 The Translation of Constantinople from Byzantine to Ottoman, as Revealed by the Lorck Prospect of the CityNigel Westbrook and Rene Van Meeuwen11 Byzantium after Byzantium? Two Greek Writers in Seventeenth-century WallachiaAlfred Vincent12 Yeats’s Two ByzantiumsPenelope BuckleyConclusion: Translating Byzantium in the New MillenniumBronwen NeilGeneral Index

Each essay concludes with an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and all are informed by meticulous use of evidence and careful argumentation; texts cited in their original language include English translations. Seldom can an essay be categorized within a single discipline such as philology, social history, folklore, Quellenforschung, or material culture because the authors explore their subject matter for its significance in a range of medieval and modern contexts. - Elizabeth A. Fisher, George Washington University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2018