Open AccessPseudo-tragica Prodromea: The shadow of pathos over the glitter of the Byzantine secular literature
Author(s) -
Dušan V. Popović
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta/zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0917
pISSN - 0584-9888
DOI - 10.2298/zrvi1956109p
Subject(s) - pathos , drama , literature , shadow (psychology) , byzantine architecture , art , history , classics , psychology , psychoanalysis
By analyzing primarily the sources for the 1st through the 3rd books of the verse novel Rhodanthe and Dosicles by Theodore Prodromos the author of the paper attempts to point out an enormous influence exerted by the Euripidean drama on the emergence of motifs, common-places and tropes in this novel, as well as to emphasize, on the one hand, in which mesure these drama-components are consistent with the logical structure of a different literary genre, and on the other, how much they represent a ballast and a purely erudite ornament for the novelist, intended exclusively for the achievement of pathos.