Table of Contents

Concerning the dating of the so-called Paradeisos; Review of P. Lemerle, Le premier humanisme byzantin; The iconoclastic iambic verses on the Chalke; Petros Sikeliotes, his Historia and the Archbishop of Bulgaria; A Byzantine depiction of the ancient city Athens; Photios on the mosaic in the apse of Hagia Sophia; Contributions for further illuminating discussion; "Graphais e glyphais" - on the fragment of Hypatios of Ephesos about pictures, with an appendix - on Leontios of Neapolis' Dialogue with a Jew; "Interpolations et non-sens indiscutables" - the first poem of the Ptochoprodromika; Artabasdos, Bonifatius and the three pallia; Classicism in the 8th century? - The homily of Patriarch Germanos on the deliverance of Constantinople; The origins of the Byzantine renaissance; A more charitable verdict; Further reflections and inquiries into the origins of the Byzantine renaissance, with a supplement - the Trier Ivory and other obscurities; The interpretation of the Bellum Avaricum and the tomcat "Mekhlempe" in three parts, I - the protest of Patriarch Sergios against the marriage of Herakleios with Martina, II - The embassy of patrikios Athanasios to the Khan of the Avars, III - The Bellum Avaricum: verses 457-61; Was bronze a rare metal? The legend of the bull in the 'Bus' square in Parastaseis 42; Phokas' raising on the shield; Marginalia to Corippus' poem In Laudem Iustini Augusti Minoris; How stupid is Zosimus allowed to be?; Badly organised thoughts on philhellenism: 'Ataktes skepseis gia ton Philellenismo' in West-European literature 1780-1830.