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Loading... Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (Cambridge Medieval Classics)by Elizabeth Jeffreys (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Five stars, because: 1. It's not a bad story, 2. it serves as a marker for the turning the clock back on women to Ancient Greece in the Byzantine Empire after the 12th Century, and the Jeffreys translation is better than the Hull translation. I know many people don't consider this cycle "literature," but they also hate puppies. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)883.02Literature Greek and other Classical languages Prose and Fiction, Classical Greek Parthenius, of Nicaea, active 1st century B.C.LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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