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...

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Published in:	Scripta Classica Vol. 17; pp. 135 - 155
Main Authors:	Burliga, Bogdan, Mauks, Michał
Format:	Article
Published:	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego 2020
Subjects:	Byzantine historiography Empresses Phidias, ca. 500 B.C.-ca. 430 B.C. Statues Sculpture
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