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Byzantine Prose Rhythm

Hörandner, Wolfram

Byzantine literature, like that of Antiquity, was written mostly for listening, hardly ever for silent reading. Given this highly aural character, taking account of rhythm is one of the necessary tools (of course not the only one) for better understanding the texts, the authors’ intentions, and their constraints.

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