The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes - Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium
Progymnasmata, exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes, translated here into English for the first time, illuminate teaching and literary culture in one of the most important epochs of the Byzantine Empire.
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