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Digenes Akrites - New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry (Paperback)
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Digenes Akrites - New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry (Paperback)
Series: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
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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 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 to 'national
epics' in the nineteenth century and for some time afterwards.
Another reason must surely be the work's uniqueness: there is
nothing quite like Digenes Akrites in either Byzantine or Modern
Greek literature. However, this uniqueness is not confined to its
problematic place in the literary 'canon' and literary history. As
historical testimony, and in its complex relationship to later oral
song and to older myth and story-telling, Digenes Akrites again has
no close parallels of comparable length in Byzantine or Modern
Greek culture. Whether as a literary text, a historical source, or
a manifestation of an oral popular culture, Digenes Akrites
remains, more than a century after its rediscovery, persistently
enigmatic. This Byzantine 'epic' or 'romance' has now become the
focus of new research across a range of disciplines since the
publication in 1985 of a radically revised edition based on the
Escorial text of the poem, by Stylianos Alexiou. The papers in this
volume, derived from a conference held in May 1992 at King's
College London, seeks to present and discuss the results of this
new research. Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic
Poetry is the second in the series published by Variorum for the
Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London.
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