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ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ

All existing information about the Byzantine poet “Ptochoprodromos” or “poor Prodromos” comes exclusively from four of his poems that survived in 12th-C. literary tradition. The ptochoprodromic poems, as they are called, are the first samples of Byzantine folk satire, a typical literary genre of the cosmopolitan society of komnenian Constantinople. The poet, who calls himself Ptochoprodromos, makes creative use of the tradition of satire and of the rhetorical technique of ethopoeia, contributing to the development of allegorical satire in the 13th century and later. As far as the author’s identity is concerned, the poems are traditionally attributed to Theodore Prodromos.

Κύρια Ιδιότητα

Scholar, poet

Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης

Unknown; 12th century

Άλλα Ονόματα