Konstantinos Hermoniakos (English spelling)

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Konstantinos Hermoniakos (English spelling)

...The Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I's siege of Constantinople (1402), Timur's invasion of Anatolia and his victory and plundering of the Sultan at the Battle of Ankara are sung in the Elegy on Timur, and the Fall of Constantinople in a series of Elegie. A Byzantine popular version of the Iliad was compiled by Konstantinos Hermoniakos (first half of the 14th century), drawing on the Homeric fables of John Tsetses and the Chronicles of Constantine Manasses, and moving ever further away from the classic Homer. His series of poems, The Tale of the Birds, The Tale of the Four Legs, and The Life of the Venerable Ass, as well as the prose works The Tale of the Fruits and The Tale of the Fishes, draw on the animal and plant world as material, but treat it no longer as an allegory but as social satire. …

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Japanese:

…またオスマン・トルコのスルタン,バヤジト1世のコンスタンティノープル包囲(1402),ティムールのアナトリア侵入と,アンカラの戦での同スルタンに対する勝利・略奪を《ティムールにまつわる悲歌》が,そして,コンスタンティノープル陥落を一連の《悲歌》が歌いあげる。《イーリアス》のビザンティン民衆文学版を,コンスタンティノス・ヘルモニアコスKōnstantinos Hermoniakos(14世紀前半)が,ヨハネス・ツェツェスのホメロス寓話やコンスタンティノス・マナセスの年代記に拠りながら編纂し,古典のホメロスからはますます遠ざかる。動・植物世界に素材を仰ぎながら,それをもはや寓話風にでなく,社会風刺風に扱うのが,一連の詩作品《鳥物語》《四足物語》《尊敬すべきロバ聖人伝》,および散文作品の《果物物語》《魚物語》である。…

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