Digenis Akritis : The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions

Name: Digenis Akritis
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521397766
Price: 10600 KES
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ISBN: 9780521397766

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Medieval Classics

ISBN-10 0521397766

ISBN-13 9780521397766

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 8th, 2004

Print length 464 Pages

Weight 624 grams

Dimensions 21.50 x 16.30 x 2.80 cms

Product Classification: Poetry / poems by individual poets Poetry by individual poets

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Digenis Akritis is Byzantium's only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of 'double descent'. This edition and translation aims to highlight the nature of the lost poem, and to provide a guide through the maze of recent discussions about the epic and its background.

Digenis Akritis is Byzantium's only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of 'double descent' on the frontiers between Byzantine and Arab territory in Asia Minor in the ninth and tenth centuries. It survives in six versions, of which the two oldest, dating from the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, are presented here in an edited version. The manuscripts are preserved in the Grottaferrata monastery near Rome and the Escorial Library in Spain. Behind these two versions lies a twelfth-century poem that can now be glimpsed at but not reconstructed. This edition and translation aims at highlighting the nature of the lost poem, and at providing a guide through the maze of recent discussions about the epic and its background.

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