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Digenis Akritis - The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (Paperback, Revised): Elizabeth Jeffreys

Digenis Akritis - The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (Paperback, Revised)

Elizabeth Jeffreys

Series: Cambridge Medieval Classics

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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.

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Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Medieval Classics
Release date:	July 2004
First published:	1998
Editors:	Elizabeth Jeffreys
Dimensions:	216 x 139 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	464
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-39776-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-39776-6
Barcode:	9780521397766