Discover a different Byzantium through 288 pages filled with small unknown, interesting, shocking, intriguing, and unexpected stories collected by Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Chicago, Antonis Kaldellis. All the stories and excerpts are based on primary sources dating from 330 to 1453.
Within the book, there are illustrations of some stories by Chrysa Avgousti Sakellaropoulou and other artists. The cover is created by the well-known painter Fykos.
Thematic Sections:
- Marriage and Family
- Unorthodox Love
- Animals
- Food and Dinner
- Eunuchs
- Medicine
- Sciences and Technology
- War—By Any Means
- Collection of Strange Saints
- Sects and Scandals
- Collection of Rogues
- Inventive Insults
- Punishments
- Foreign Places and People 330-641
- Foreign Places and Stereotypes 641-1453
- Latins, Franks, and Germans
- Natural Disasters
- The Emperors
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Byzantine Tales
- Original Title
- A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities
- Type
- Prose
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 280
- Release Date
- 5/2025
- Publication Date
- 2025
- Dimensions
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9786188737228
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