Digenis Akritis
Subtitle: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (Cambridge Medieval Classics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780521394727
Subjects: Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Greek Literature; Textual Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Hellenic languages; Literary Criticism; Medieval; Digenis Akritas (Legendary character)--Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism : Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Criticism, Textual; Ancient and Classical; Byzantine literature; Digenis Akritas (Legendary cha; Digenis Akritas (Legendary character); Epic poetry, Byzantine; Poetry
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.