Le caractère dramatique des épigrammes de la Croix et de la Crucifixion du Christ

Abstract

Scholar poetry and the case of the epigram in particular has been a literary expression means not only of ideas and life attitudes but also of religious sentiment and profound religious faith. Delving into the epigrams of the second category and in particular, the epigrams dealing with the Cross and the Crucifixion, our attention will be focused on the tropes employed in these epigrams. In short, we will examine those tropes used by byzantine epigram-writers – anonymous or not – through a range of epigrams such as direct and indirect questions, exclamations and rhetoric questions as well as the influencing factors, the aims and objectives and finally, whether the use of these tropes is successful or not.