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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 8 July 2004
- ISBN 9780521397766
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 216x139x27 mm
- Weight 611 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Two newly edited and translated versions of the Byzantium epic, Digenis Akritis: one from the Grottaferrata monastery near Rome, the other from the Escorial library in Spain.
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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 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.
"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
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sigla; Grottaferrata text and translation; Books 1-8; Escorial text and translation; Bibliography; Name index.
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