Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry

by Roderick Beaton and David Ricks

Called variously the 'Byzantine epic', the 'epic of Modern Greece', an 'epic-romance' and 'romance', the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and from many countries of the world, as well as of writers and public figures in Greece. There are many reasons for this, not least among them the prestige accorded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860783952
• ISBN13: 9780860783954
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"