All in all, Taxidis' book is a precious contribution to the booming field of Byzantine poetry and highlights a little-known source for the cultural history of later Byzantium.

Ilias Taxidis. Les Épigrammes de Maxime Planude. Introduction, édition critique, traduction française et annotation. Byzantinisches Archiv, 32. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Foteini Spingou, Oxford University