Panagiotis Roilos is George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
Amphoteroglossia, in its analysis of rhetorical manipulations,
generic complexity, and the various tensions made possible by the
novels' "discursive plasticity", is undoubtedly the most thorough
and most perceptive study ever written of these works, and one from
which the Byzantine writer comes through forcefully as one fiercely
determined to show his independence while artistically keeping
within the overlying strictures of the rhetoric of the Second
Sophistic; but it is an independence susceptible to appreciation
only by highly sophisticated readers, both ancient and modern.
Amphoteroglossia is, moreover, destined to retain for decades to
come the priceless ability to provoke further analysis and
evaluation.
*Speculum*
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