Sophia Xenophontos has successfully managed to render in fluid English a Greek text which is not equally fluid in its original form, and yet to reproduce in an almost perfect manner its stylistic peculiarities. Thanks to this great job both scholars and students are provided with a very useful tool for the study of Theodore Metochites and his work, as well as the intellectual affairs of the so-called “Early Palaeologan Renaissance.” Moreover, as it has already been observed, the book can equally be a useful tool for a broader audience, namely for all those engaged in intellectual activities, inasmuch as the main subject of the Ethikos, the value of human logos and the question on how intellectual activity could be harmoniously combined with the (always) growing demands of everyday life, is a perennial and constantly topical issue.
Eleni Kaltsogianni
The Byzantine Review
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