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See also:MANUEL See also:PHILES (c. 1275–1345)
, of See also:Ephesus, See also:Byzantine poet
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At an See also:early See also:age he removed to See also:Constantinople, where he was the See also:pupil of Georgius See also:Pachymeres, in whose See also:honour he composed a memorial poem
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See also:Philes appears to have travelled extensively, and his writings contain much See also:information concerning the imperial See also:court and distinguished Byzantines
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Having offended one of the emperors by indiscreet remarks published in a chronography, he was thrown into See also:prison and only released after an abject See also:apology
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Philes is the counterpart of See also:Theodorus Prodromus in the See also:time of the Comneni; his See also:character, as shown in his poems, is that of a begging poet, always See also:pleading poverty, and ready to descend to the grossest flattery to obtain the favour-able See also:notice of the See also:great
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With one unimportant exception, his productions are in See also:verse, the greater See also:part in dodecasyllabic See also:iambic trimeters, the See also:remainder in the fifteen-syllable " See also:political " measure
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Philes was the author of poems on a great variety of subjects: on the characteristics of animals, chiefly based upon See also:Aelian and See also:Oppian, a didactic poem of some 2000 lines, dedicated to See also:Michael See also:Palaeologus; on the See also:elephant; on See also:plants; a necrological poem, probably written on the See also:death of one of the sons of the imperial See also:house; a See also:panegyric on See also: E . See also:Miller (1855-1857) . See also C . See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897) . |
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