Download or read book Four Byzantine Novels written by Theodore Prodromos and published by Translated Texts for Byzantini. This book was released on 2012 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four of the earliest novels ever written— all from twelfth-century Constantinople— are now available in new translations in a single volume. These novels, perhaps the most attractive and unexpected products of the Byzantine millennium, have been largely neglected by scholars and readers. Placing the novels and their writers in their literary and historical contexts, this volume is the most recent step toward a critical restoration of these works that follow the romantic adventures of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus.