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464 pages • first pub 1875 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521394727
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07 May 1998
Description
"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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464 pages • first pub 1875 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521394727
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07 May 1998
Description
"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...