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Called variously the 'Byzantine epic', the 'epic of Modern Greece', an 'epic-romance' and a '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…
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Editions
6 editions- Other · English · 2017Taylor & Francis Group · 208 pages · 9781351944182
- Other · English · 2017Taylor & Francis Group · 9781315257815
- Other · English · 2017Taylor & Francis Group · 9781351944168
- Other · English · 2017Taylor & Francis Group · 208 pages · 9781351944175
- Other · English · 2016Taylor & Francis Group · 208 pages · 9781138271036
- Other · English · 1993Variorum · 196 pages · 9780860783954
Digenis Akritas (Byzantine poem)History and criticismByzantine Epic poetryByzantine poetry, history and criticismEpic poetry, history and criticismLITERARY CRITICISMPoetry
