Digenis Akritis - The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions

Klappentext Two newly edited and translated versions of the Byzantium epic, Digenis Akritis: one from the Grottaferrata monastery near Rome, the other from the Escorial library in Spain. Zusammenfassung Digenis Akritis is Byzantium's only epic poem! telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of 'double descent'. This edition and translation aims to highlight the nature of the lost poem! and to provide a guide through the maze of recent discussions about the epic and its background. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sigla; Grottaferrata text and translation; Books 1-8; Escorial text and translation; Bibliography; Name index.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Jeffreys, Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys
• Assisted by: Peter Dronke (Editor), Jeffreys Elizabeth (Editor), Elizabeth Jeffreys (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.1998
• EAN: 9780521394727
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39472-7
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Cambridge Medieval Classics; Print on Demand; Cambridge Medieval Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets