| 1. | It was made according to the rules of Byzantine literature.
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| 2. | The poem does not diverge from the standard political verse of popular Byzantine literature.
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| 3. | See the article Byzantine literature for more.
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| 4. | Byzantine literature refers to literature of the Byzantine Empire written in Medieval and early Modern Greek.
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| 5. | Byzantine literature combined Greek and Christian civilization on the common foundation of the Roman political system.
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| 6. | Byzantine literature possesses four primary cultural elements : Greek, Christian, Roman, and Oriental.
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| 7. | Karl Krumbacher, the historian of Byzantine literature, says that the work cannot be surpassed.
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| 8. | This leads to a possibility of applying certain methods of contemporary literary analysis to Byzantine literature.
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| 9. | His later scholarship is above all marked with a growing concern with Byzantine literature, particularly hagiography.
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| 10. | In Byzantine literature, four different cultural elements are recognised : the Roman, and the Oriental.
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