{"product_id":"the-byzantine-sinbad","title":"Byzantine Sinbad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Byzantine Sinbad\u003c\/i\u003e collects \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Syntipas the Philosopher\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fables of Syntipas\u003c\/i\u003e, both translated from Syriac in the late eleventh century by the scholar Michael Andreopoulos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally written in Persian and part of a multilingual and multicultural medieval storytelling tradition, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Syntipas\u003c\/i\u003e recounts how the Persian king Cyrus’s unnamed son—a student of the fictional philosopher Sinbad, who is known in Greek as Syntipas—is falsely accused of rape by a royal concubine. While the young man awaits execution, seven philosophers and the concubine attempt to influence Cyrus’s judgment. After seven days of storytelling, the son is exonerated and demonstrates the wisdom he learned from Syntipas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sixty-two moral tales in \u003ci\u003eThe Fables of Syntipas\u003c\/i\u003e are inspired mainly by the tradition of Aesop but include fifteen that are uniquely attributed to the philosopher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is the first English translation to bring together Andreopoulos’s Byzantine Greek texts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49746110316888,"sku":"9780674251472","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674251472_d384afce-7b7b-40d2-90e6-fe7012af5892.jpg?v=1778490953","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-byzantine-sinbad","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}