Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (Cambridge Medieval Classics, Series Number 7) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521394724 ISBN 13: 9780521394727

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

"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 partially in six versions, of which the two oldest are edited here. 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.

About this title

Language Notes:

Text: English, Greek (translation)
Original Language: Greek

Review:

"This edition for the first time makes this challenging medieval text fully accessible to medievalists beyond te specialisms of Byzantine or modern Greek studies and will surely remain standard for many years to come." Speculum

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521394724
• ISBN 13: 9780521394727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Jeffreys Elizabeth