A Critique of a Satire - Constantine Acropolites’ Letter on the Timarion

Mészáros, Tamás ^[1]
1. [1] Eötvös Loránd University
  
  Eötvös Loránd University
  
  Hungría
Localización: Acta classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, ISSN 0418-453X, Nº. 60, 2024, págs. 157-164
Idioma: inglés
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- The protagonist of the satire Timarion, by an unknown author from the 11th or 12th century, falls into a state of suspended animation on his journey and is carried by two demons into the underworld, where he proves in a court trial that he is not dead and is allowed to return to the living. The aim of this paper is to present and interpret a short letter written two hundred years later by Constantine Acropolites, who sharply criticises the Timarion, without clearly presenting his objections.