We need to talk about Byzantium
Or, Byzantium, its reception of the classical world as discussed in current scholarship, and should classicists pay attention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12936377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Jeffreys (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 158-174 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Classical Receptions Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-5134 • E-ISSN: 1759-5142 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/crj/clt032 |
| OpenAlex | W2314841641 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
Textual criticism of classical authors is predicated on the assumption that medieval manuscripts can give accurate access to works composed more than a millennium before the earliest extant witnesses. This article argues that classicists should be prepared to respect in its own terms the Byzantine role in the preservation of the classical heritage, material as well as literary. While the inhabitants of the Byzantine empire brought their own agendas to their appreciation of the classical past, without the Byzantium knowledge today the classical world would be meagre
Ancient history · Art · Byzantine architecture · Classical Literature · Criticism · Empire · Extant taxon · Literature · Political science · Scholarship · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Classics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |