„Ty potworze dzikszy niż Cerber w Hadesie... Psie wstrętnie cuchnący, żmijowa naturo...”, czyli o odniesieniach do zwierząt w inwektywie Michała Psellosa na mnicha Sabbaitę

Magdalena Garnczarska

doi:10.18778/8142-192-8

„You Monster Wilder Than Cerberus in Hades... You Dog Stinking Disgustingly, you Viper’s Nature...” About References to Animals in Michael Psellos’ Invective on Monk Sabbaitam

Magdalena Garnczarska

Jagiellonian University

Publication:

The Motifs of Fauna and Flora in Literature and Culture

Series: Literary and Linguistic Analects

Pages: 55-72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-192-8.03

Keywords: animals in mythology, fauna and flora in literature and culture, mimicry in literature, ecological humanities

Published: 30 December 2018

Categories: Polish philology, Open Access

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Michael Pselllos (1018–c. 1076) was a comprehensively educated Byzantine intellectual and politician. Now he is the best known as the author of Chronicles (Χρονογραφία), but he wrote much more texts (for example about theology, rhetoric, philosophy, natural history, agriculture). One of the little-known works is his invective on monk Sabbaitam. It is not very long poem in which he used some references to animals — both domestic and mythological (for example: dog, viper, pig, dragon, Cerberus). Psellos chose insults which were based on pejorative animal appellatives. It is worth analyzing these abuses in the context of the Byzantine culture.

Magdalena Garnczarska, Jagiellonian University

Magdalena Garnczarska — odbywa obecnie studia doktoranckie na Wydziale Historycznym Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Jej zainteresowania badawcze koncentrują się wokół zagadnień związanych ze sztuką oraz literaturą bizantyńską.

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Garnczarska, M. (2018). „You Monster Wilder Than Cerberus in Hades... You Dog Stinking Disgustingly, you Viper’s Nature...” About References to Animals in Michael Psellos’ Invective on Monk Sabbaitam. In M. Kuran (Ed.), & (Ed.), The Motifs of Fauna and Flora in Literature and Culture (Vol. IX, pp. 55-72). Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-192-8.03