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The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing to a wider public.
“Building upon two earlier volumes on Psellos that focused primarily on his orations and letters, this third volume from the University of Notre Dame Press offers English translations and commentaries from a collaboration of scholars on a wide array of his writings on literary theory, visual ethics, and art criticism.” —Parergon
Michael Psellos was a Byzantine Greek monk, writer, philosopher, politician, and historian.
Charles Barber is professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University.
Stratis Papaioannou is associate professor of classics and director of the Program of Medieval Studies at Brown University.
General Introduction — Stratis Papaioannou
Part One. On Literature: Rhetoric and ΛΌΓΌΙ
Introduction to Part One: Stratis Papaioannou
1. Synopsis of the Rhetorical Forms, based on Hermogenes’ On Forms — Stratis Papaioannou
2. Synopsis of Rhetoric in Verses, based on the Hermogenian Corpus — Jeffrey Walker
3. On Literary Composition, based on Dionysios of Halikarnassos’ On Composition —Anthony Littlewood
4. On Rhetoric, based on Longinos’ Art of Rhetoric — Stratis Papaioannou
5. On Tragedy — Stratis Papaioannou
6. On the Different Styles of Certain Writings: A Rhetor’s Canon — Stratis Papaioannou
7. The Styles of Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, Chrysostom, and Gregory of Nyssa —Stratis Papaioannou
8. An Encomium of Gregory of Nazianzos’ Style — Stratis Papaioannou
9. Two Lectures on Gregory of Nazianzos: Theol. I 19 (on Or. 40.24) and 98 (on Or. 43.1) — Stratis Papaioannou
10. On Saint John Chrysostom — Stratis Papaioannou
11. To One Asking “Who Wrote Verse Better, Euripides Or Pisides?” — Anthony Littlewood
12. A Comparison of the Novels of Heliodoros and Achilleus Tatios — Anthony Littlewood
13. Encomium for Kyr Symeon Metaphrastes — Elizabeth A. Fisher
14. Encomium for the Monk Ioannes Kroustoulas Who Read Aloud at the Holy Soros — Stratis Papaioannou
Part Two: Arts and Aesthetics
Introduction to Part Two — Charles Barber
15. On Perception and Perceptibles — Charles Barber and David Jenkins
16. On Beauty and On Intelligible Beauty — Charles Barber and David Jenkins
17. To the Emperor Doukas, Regarding the Inscription — Anthony Kaldellis
18. On Ancient Works of Art (Or. min. 33 and 34) — Christine Angelidi
19. Ekphrasis of the Crucifixion — Charles Barber and Elizabeth A. Fisher
20. Discourse on the Miracle that Occurred in the Blachernai Church — Elizabeth A. Fisher
21. A Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God — Charles Barber, David Jenkins, and Stratis Papaioannou
22. The Empress Zoe and Christ Antiphonêtês — Charles Barber
23. Select Letters on Art and Aesthetics — Charles Barber