%0 Journal Article %T Nic¨¦foro Blemida y la estatua del soberano 'O c. 1254 d.C. %A Soto Ayala %A Roberto Andr¨¦s %J Byzantion nea hell¨¢s %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-84712010000100009 %X this article presents a brief summary of the historie and philological research of the fount (the sovereign's statue) of the byzantine writer nicephorus blemides. the discourse belongs to the byzantine rhetorico-political tradition of the "mirrors of princes" and is directed to the emperor theodorus ii l¨¢scaris. it constitutes and ethico-political admonition to the sovereign and, at the same time, it tells of its author's erudition and of the vogue of classical studies in the byzantine world of the 13th century, which was particularly a¨ªfected by the devastation of the fourth crusade. the article places historically both the author and his discourse, offers a summary of the work in spanish language and its presents a complete bibliographical repertory. %K nicephorus blemides %K mirrors of princes %K byzantine rhetoric. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-84712010000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en