Editing Eustathios Makrembolites

[[File:Houghton Typ 715.43.374 - Les amours d’Ismene et d’Ismenias.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''Les amours d’Ismene et d’Ismenias'', a 1743 translation into French of ''Hysimine and Hysimines''(12th century)]]
'''Eustathios Makrembolites''' ({{langx|el|{{lang|grc|Εὐστάθιος Μακρεμβολίτης}}}}; ''fl. c.'' 1150–1200), [[latinisation of names|Latinized]] as '''Eustathius Macrembolites''', was a [[Byzantine]] revivalist of the [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] romance, flourished in the second half of the 12th century [[Common Era|CE]]. He is sometimes conflated/equated with his contemporary, the [[Eparch of the City (Constantinople)|Eparch of the City]] [[Eumathios Makrembolites]] ({{langx|el|{{lang|grc|Εὐμάθιος Μακρεμβολίτης}}}}).

His title ''[[Protonobilissimus]]'' shows him to have been a person of distinction and, if he is also correctly described in the manuscripts as chief keeper of the ecclesiastical archives, he must have been a [[Christians|Christian]]. He was the author of a [[Byzantine novel]], ''The Story of Hysmine and Hysminias'', in eleven books.  Although he borrowed from [[Homer]] and other [[Attic Greek|Attic]] poets, the chief source of his phraseology was the rhetorician [[Choricius of Gaza]]. The style is remarkable for the absence of hiatus and a laboured use of [[antithesis]]. The digressions on works of art, apparently the result of personal observation, are considered by some scholars the best part of the work.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} The novel enjoyed a later influence in connection with the story tradition of [[Apollonius of Tyre]]—Eustathius' scene of the storm at sea and the heroine offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the [[Confessio Amantis]] of [[John Gower]] and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Pericles, Prince of Tyre]]'' (particularly in Act III).

A collection of eleven ''Riddles'', of which solutions were written by the grammarian [[Manuel Holobolos]], is also attributed to Eustathius.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

==Editions==
*[[Isidor Hilberg]] (1876), edition of both romance and riddles, with critical apparatus and prolegomena, including the solutions. He fixes the date of Eustathius between 850 and 988.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
*M. Treu (1893), edition of the ''Riddles'' alone.
*''Four Byzantine Novels'', translated with introductions and notes by Elizabeth Jeffreys, Liverpool University Press, 2012. Includes English translation of ''Hysmine and Hyminias''.

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Eustathius Macrembolites|display=Eustathius, surnamed Macrembolites|volume=9|page=957}} This work in turn cites:
**[[J. C. Dunlop]], ''History of Fiction'' (1888), new ed. in Bohn's Standard Library
**[[E. Rohde]], ''Der griechische Roman'' (1900)
**[[Karl Krumbacher]], ''Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur'' (1897)

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