Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions

by Elizabeth Jeffreys

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521394727
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/07/1998
Series:	Cambridge Medieval Classics , #7
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	5.71(w) x 8.82(h) x 1.34(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sigla; Grottaferrata text and translation; Books 1–8; Escorial text and translation; Bibliography; Name index.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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