Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry

by Roderick Beaton and David Ricks

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138271039
• ISBN13: 9781138271036
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"