Inscriptional Poetry
Inscriptional Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The amount of Byzantine poetry still preserved in situ is considerably high. Verses inscribed on objects are so called epigrams; this term was already used in Byzantium. An epigram differs from an ordinary poem insofar as it is primarily defined by its real or potential inscriptional use. There has already been some informative research of ekphrasis in poetry and epigrams in general. Former studies, such as relevant entries in the Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum (V [1962] 539-577, R. KEYDELL) and in the Reallexikon zur byzantinischen Kunst (II [1971] 33-75, A. HOHLWEG), primarily focused on the collections of more or less ekphrastic epigrams such as can be found in the Anthologia Palatina, of Paulos Silentiarios, of Manuel Philes and many others.

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