Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry by David Ricks, Roderick Beaton

Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry

David Ricks, Roderick Beaton

208 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction poetry adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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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 s...

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