DOIAbstract
Byzantine book epigrams can be defined as poems that are found in Late Antique and Medieval Greek manuscripts functioning as paratexts. The corpus of the present work is composed of epigrams devoted to two of the novels of erotic subject with greater success in the Byzantine period, those written by Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus. Because of the dynamics of the genre, book epigrams witness the circumstances of reception and circulation of the novels. The analysis of the epigrams and their contexts reveals some processes of medieval appropriation of the erotic novel, which combine erudite gestures with a prescriptive reading
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