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410 pages • first pub 1875 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521397766
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08 July 2004
Description
Digenis Akritis is Byzantium's only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of "double descent" on the frontiers between Byzantine and Arab territory in Asia Minor in the ninth and tenth centuries. It survives partially in six versi...
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410 pages • first pub 1875 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521397766
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 08 July 2004
Description
Digenis Akritis is Byzantium's only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of "double descent" on the frontiers between Byzantine and Arab territory in Asia Minor in the ninth and tenth centuries. It survives partially in six versi...