Introduction

Abstract

"The current issue of the Scripta Classica offers an unusual selection of texts. The contributions in this volume focus on the reception of classical literature in Byzantium. This collection includes analysis of the texts penned by twelfth‐ century rhetoricians, scholars and historians – and goes even further, well into the period of Late Byzantium. And yet ancient culture and literature are the central focus of the discussion, which entails both the presentation as to how the ancient material was repurposed by the Byzantines, and the modern analysis of this process." [...] (fragm.)