Roderick Beaton, David Ricks

Digenes Akrites (eBook, ePUB)

New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351944175
• Artikelnr.: 47955922

Autorenporträt

Roderick Beaton, David Ricks

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Digenes Akrites and Byzantine literature: the 12th century
background to the Grottaferrata version Paul Magdalino; Digenes Akrites:
Escorial or Grottaferrata? An overview Stylianos Alexiou; The Grottaferrata
version of Digenes Akrites: a reassessment Elizabeth Jeffreys; The primacy
of the Escorial Digenes Akrites Catia Galatariotou; An epic in the making?
The early versions of Digenes Akrites Roderick Beaton; Digenes Akrites and
the Old Spanish epics David Hook; Armenia and Armenians in Byzantine epic
Hratch Bartikian; The historian'sDigenes Akrites Anthony Bryer; Digenes =
Alexander? The relationships between Digenes Akrites and the Byzantine
Alexander Romance in their different versions Ulrich Moennig; Digenes
Akrites in prose: the Andros version and its Modern Greek literature George
Kechagioglou; The Akritic hero: socio-cultural status in the light of
comparative data Theodore Papadopoullos; Is there such a thing as an
'akritic song'? Problems in the classification of the narrative songs Guy
Saunier; None but the brave deserve the fair?: abduction elopement,
seduction and marriage in the Escorial Digenes Akrites and Greek heroic
songs Peter Mackridge; Digenes Akrites as literature David Ricks;
Bibliography; Indexes. 14 studies in English