Research Catalog

Title

The Byzantine Sinbad / Michael Andreopoulos ; translated by Jeffrey Beneker and Craig A. Gibson.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Andreopōlos, Michaēl, active 11th century
• Beneker, Jeffrey
• Gibson, Craig A., 1968-

Description

xxii, 295 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"The figure of the philosopher Sinbad, rendered in Greek as Syntipas, was introduced into the Byzantine literary tradition in the late eleventh century through two works translated from Syriac into Greek by Michael Andreopoulos. Both of these works, The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher (BSP) and a collection of sixty-two fables (Fables), are contained in this volume. Taken together, the BSP and Fables represent the character and the wisdom of Syntipas as they would become known to Byzantine readers. Although Andreopoulos translated both texts in the Middle Ages, they are distantly related to earlier Greek traditions as old as the fourth century BCE and, more immediately, to a complex development of medieval wisdom literature written in Persian, Arabic, and Syriac. The BSP and Fables made their way into Greek by different paths, but once united by Andreopoulos's translations, they were probably assumed to belong together. Of the three oldest manuscripts that form the basis of our Greek texts, two transmit both the story of Syntipas and the fables that were attributed to him"--

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; DOML 67

Uniform Title

• Book of Sindbad. Greek (Andreopōlos : Beneker and Gibson)
• Book of Sindbad. English (Beneker and Gibson)
• Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 67.

Alternative Title

Fables of Syntipas.

Subject

Book of Sindbad

Genre/Form

• Byzantine literature – Translations into English.
• Byzantine literature.
• Fables, Syriac – Translations into Greek.
• Fables, Syriac – Translations into English.
• fables.
• Fables.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290) and index.

Language (note)

• Texts in Greek with English translations on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.

Contents

Introduction -- The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher -- The Fables of Syntipas.

ISBN

• 9780674251472
• 0674251474

LCCN

• 2020036294
• 99993907514

OCLC

• on1198017576
• 1198017576
• SCSB-14512414

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries