The present volume contains the text and translation of the “Comparison of Demosthenes and Aelius Aristeides”, a treatise written by the famous scholar of the Palaiologan Renaissance Theodore Metochites in 1330, towards the end of his life. It is an interesting text, in which Metochites compares the literary merits of those two ancient orators, concluding … Continue reading Théodore Métochite, Comparaison de Démosthène et d’Aristide