- with his hair: a
neglected occasion cannot be recovered. The
author of
Ekphráseis (Descriptions)
found that the
statue of
Caerus at
Sicyon resembled Dionysus...
-
probably flourished in the 3rd (or
possibly 4th)
century CE. He
wrote Ekphraseis (also
known by the
Latin title Statuarum descriptiones, and Gr**** title...
-
including Agathias, Paul the Silentiary, Macedonius, and
Julian the Egyptian.
Ekphraseis by John of Gaza and Paul the
Silentiary also enjo****
significant readership...
-
prolific writer, from
polemical writings attacking the
Union to
rhetorical ekphraseis and monodies, prayers,
hymns and sermons,
including an
ekphrasis of Trebizond...
- earlier, 12th-century
Byzantine romances, such as the use of
elaborate ekphraseis of
gardens and buildings, or the
occurrence of
bride shows,
which harkens...
- and Eck cite "the
appearance of deities, speeches, aristeiai, similes,
ekphraseis, and the
subdivision of
events in
single days" as
decidedly Homeric elements...
