Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, Issues 7-8Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 2000 |
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... death nearby . The astrologers ( the paid ones ) of the court were blathering that he would still live for many more years . But while they were speaking , he remembers old pious customs and from the monks ' cells orders ecclesiastical ...
... death nearby . The astrologers ( the paid ones ) of the court were blathering that he would still live for many more years . But while they were speaking , he remembers old pious customs and from the monks ' cells orders ecclesiastical ...
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... death to catch him unprepared , a man overtaken by events , not in control of them as Cavafy's emperor appears to be . No one reading Choniates ' account in place of Cavafy's would be likely to conclude , " Happy all those who meet ...
... death to catch him unprepared , a man overtaken by events , not in control of them as Cavafy's emperor appears to be . No one reading Choniates ' account in place of Cavafy's would be likely to conclude , " Happy all those who meet ...
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... death of Manuel Comnenus contains three principal statements about the emperor's death . Choniates introduces the subject by informing us that " the emperor first took ill before the month of March in the then current thirteenth ...
... death of Manuel Comnenus contains three principal statements about the emperor's death . Choniates introduces the subject by informing us that " the emperor first took ill before the month of March in the then current thirteenth ...
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an exclusive slogan or a universal | 1 |
Hellenic identity | 25 |
Byzantine historian? | 45 |
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