Digenis Akritis
Subtitle: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (Cambridge Medieval Classics)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780521397766
Subjects: Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Digenis Akritas (Legendary character)--Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Literary Criticism & Collections / History & Criticism; General
First sentence: Praises and trophies for the achievements of the thrice-blessed Basil the Frontiersman, the bravest and most noble, who possessed his strength from God as a gift and has overcome all Syria, Babylon, and the whole of Charziane, Armenia and Cappadocia, and Amorion and Ikonion as well, and that famed and still great fortress, powerful and well-fortified, Ankyra I mean, and all Smyrna, and he subjugated the land by the sea.