This research project deals with Byzantine book epigrams. These are metrical paratexts, texts in verse that refer to a main text. This genre is

preserved in Medieval Greek manuscripts. The project aims at a better understanding

of Byzantine book epigrams, their characteristics, their function and their context.

Besides that the concept ‘poetry’ will be redefined. The concept ‘paratext’ will be

approached as a space for more formal experiments with more freedom than in literature that is part of the main text. A third concept that will be questioned is ‘author’.