A repentant sinner: representing the self in Nikephoros Ouranos’ catanyctic alphabet

For Byzantines, catanyctic poetry offered a rich source of models for self-representation. In this paper I analyse the poetic strategies and literary motifs through which Nikephoros Ouranos (tenth–eleventh century) shaped self in his alphabet. particular, will focus on intertextual employed by order to model self, such as identification with scriptural sinners, presence biblical metaphors.