Veering only slightly from his line of books on food in classical times, he translates a 10th-century AD
Byzantine Greek farming manual that was written for Emperor Constantine Prophyrogenitus, one of a series of such distillations he commissioned.
She provides both the original version, in
Byzantine Greek, and its translation into the vernacular, as well as English translations of them on facing pages.
In keeping with medieval
Byzantine Greek ceramics, I decorated each pair with known Byzantine folk designs.
How did a
Byzantine Greek called Nikolaos, who died on December 6 in the year 352 AD, end up sitting in a papier-mache grotto in every large department store in the land?
Trapp, Vienna 1994-; though, perhaps, not so useful for Anglo-American students, it is the only dictionary of
Byzantine Greek which includes a number of the neologisms and compounds used exclusively by the Komnenian authors.
Among the rousing adventures of this poet-warrior was the rescue of an emperor of Rome itself (he's called King ibn Marqus) at the head of a
Byzantine Greek force, even though the Byzantines were enemies of the Arabs.
The "Index Verborum" is particularly important because it contains words not found in the major classical and
Byzantine Greek lexicons and dictionaries.
Unlike the self-consciously radical creations of modern cultures (from the New Deal to Novyj Mir and the French NRF) that proclaimed their novelty, in
Byzantine Greek the word neos, from which our "new," "nouveau," and "neu" derive, meant imitation not innovation.(13) To rebuild, to recover, to restore what had been were blessed enterprises; to undertake a new demarche was to approximate heresy.