From History of Byzantine Aesthetics: ἔκφρασις and Beauty of Living Dolls in Anna Comnena’s Alexiad, 3.2.4 and 3.3.3–4.
The two intriguing passages from the Anna Comenna’s Alexiad, a masterpiece of the Byzantine historiography, are the subject-matter of the present paper. It is argued that in these fine examples of rhetorical descriptio the most original is the writer’s decision to compare the physical appearance of...
| Publicado en: | Scripta Classica Vol. 17; pp. 135 - 155 |
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego
2020
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