This paper is concerned with narrative techniques – how writer John Kaminiates chooses to tell his story: the capture of Thessaloniki in 904 by Arab pirates and the captivation and transport of thousands of inhabitants to Syria. Various aspects of narrative function are examined: the relation between story time and narration time, the form and content of description, the narrator’s roles and communication with the reader, the significance of detail, the use of proverbs and metaphors. Finally, an indicative discussion of the influential written forms in Kaminiates’s work, is also attempted within the framework of this narrative analysis.
Licenciado en Filología griega y en Filosofía en la Universidad de Patras (Grecia). Investigador de la filología y historia bizantinas. Candidato al doctorado en los estudios Bizantinos en la Universidad Jónica.
Panagopoulos, S. P. (2014). Narrative techniques in John Kaminiates’ de Expugnatione Thessalonicae. Byzantion Nea Hellás, (33), Pág. 181–202. Recuperado de https://rchd.uchile.cl/index.php/RBNH/article/view/35004
