Dimitris Krallis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3096017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitris Krallis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitris |
| FAMILY NAME | Krallis |
| SIGNATURE | KRALLIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A New Look at Zonaras (on T. Kampianaki, John Zonaras’ Epitome of Histories
The Politics of War
Forged on the anvil of conflict and raised in the provinces the strategos leading the armies of Romanía – the Roman polity we have come to call Byzantium – is often conceived as the photonegative of the urbane court official. He was a Digenis Akritas type of character, reveling in manly deeds and sneering at the erudite mandarins that ran the Queen of Cities. This chapter suggests that Byzantine commanders and their craft should also be studied t…
Serving Byzantium's Emperors
The Army in Society. The Society of the Army
The Courts of Justice, the Court, and the Courtiers
Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
As a member of the Komnenian court and husband to Anna Komnene, the writer of a famous Byzantine source for the history of the first Crusade and the transformative reign of Alexios I Komnenos, Nikephoros Bryennios is a significant figure. An aristocrat, whose grandfather was defeated by Alexios during the civil wars of the 1070s, Bryennios engages in his twelfth-century work with the critical years before the triumph of the Komnenoi. His text, fu…
Greek Glory, Constantinian Legend
This paper argues that chapters 22–28 from the second book of Zosimos’ New History can no longer be treated as historical. Rather they draw from a source that appears to have modeled Constantine’s war against Licinius on the battles of Salamis and Hydaspes, while at the same time casting Licinius as an oriental despot—a Roman Xerxes of sorts—fighting against the forces of Hellas. The deployment by the pagan Zosimos of material rather positively d…
The Critic’s Byzantine Ploy
The debate on blasphemy generated by the publication of the Muhammad cartoons and the attendant conversation on the posited injury experienced by the offended religious subject has recently touched the world of Byzantium. The present essay takes on an elegant recent postsecularist engagement with Byzantine iconoclasm and argues that by appropriating elements of Byzantine Aristotelian theology in order to undergird a postsecularist argument, the m…
Greek Glory, Constantinian Legend
This paper argues that chapters 22–28 from the second book of Zosimos’ New History can no longer be treated as historical. Rather they draw from a source that appears to have modeled Constantine’s war against Licinius on the battles of Salamis and Hydaspes, while at the same time casting Licinius as an oriental despot—a Roman Xerxes of sorts—fighting against the forces of Hellas. The deployment by the pagan Zosimos of material rather positively d…
The Critic’s Byzantine Ploy
The debate on blasphemy generated by the publication of the Muhammad cartoons and the attendant conversation on the posited injury experienced by the offended religious subject has recently touched the world of Byzantium. The present essay takes on an elegant recent postsecularist engagement with Byzantine iconoclasm and argues that by appropriating elements of Byzantine Aristotelian theology in order to undergird a postsecularist argument, the m…
The Critic’s Byzantine Ploy
The debate on blasphemy generated by the publication of the Muhammad cartoons and the attendant conversation on the posited injury experienced by the offended religious subject has recently touched the world of Byzantium. The present essay takes on an elegant recent postsecularist engagement with Byzantine iconoclasm and argues that by appropriating elements of Byzantine Aristotelian theology in order to undergird a postsecularist argument, the m…
Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
As a member of the Komnenian court and husband to Anna Komnene, the writer of a famous Byzantine source for the history of the first Crusade and the transformative reign of Alexios I Komnenos, Nikephoros Bryennios is a significant figure. An aristocrat, whose grandfather was defeated by Alexios during the civil wars of the 1070s, Bryennios engages in his twelfth-century work with the critical years before the triumph of the Komnenoi. His text, fu…
Greek Glory, Constantinian Legend
This paper argues that chapters 22–28 from the second book of Zosimos’ New History can no longer be treated as historical. Rather they draw from a source that appears to have modeled Constantine’s war against Licinius on the battles of Salamis and Hydaspes, while at the same time casting Licinius as an oriental despot—a Roman Xerxes of sorts—fighting against the forces of Hellas. The deployment by the pagan Zosimos of material rather positively d…
Serving Byzantium's Emperors
The Army in Society. The Society of the Army
The Courts of Justice, the Court, and the Courtiers
The Politics of War
Forged on the anvil of conflict and raised in the provinces the strategos leading the armies of Romanía – the Roman polity we have come to call Byzantium – is often conceived as the photonegative of the urbane court official. He was a Digenis Akritas type of character, reveling in manly deeds and sneering at the erudite mandarins that ran the Queen of Cities. This chapter suggests that Byzantine commanders and their craft should also be studied t…
A New Look at Zonaras (on T. Kampianaki, John Zonaras’ Epitome of Histories
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (5 works) · Classics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)