Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions by Unknown

Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions

Unknown with Elizabeth Jeffreys (Translator)

464 pages first pub 1875 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry reflective medium-paced
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"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 ver...

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