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Very good in very good jacket. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket, book veryu good, jacket also very good, light wear, price clipped. 148 pp. Wikipedia: Digenis Akritas is a medieval Greek romantic epic that emerged in the 12th century Byzantine Empire. It is the lengthiest and most famous of the acritic songs; Byzantine folk poems celebrating the lives and exploits of the Akritai, the inhabitants and frontier guards of the empire's eastern Anatolian province. The acritic songs represented the remnants of an ancient epic cycle in Byzantium and, due to their long oral transmission throughout the empire, the identification of precise references to historical events may be only conjectural. Set during the Arab-Byzantine wars, the poem reflects the interactions, as well as the military and cultural conflicts of the two polities. The epic consists of between 3, 000 to 4, 000 lines and it has been pieced together following the discovery of several manuscripts. An extensive narrative text, it is often thought of as the only surviving Byzantine work truly qualifying as epic poetry. Written in a form of vernacular Greek, it is regarded as one of its earliest examples, as well as the starting point of Modern Greek literature.
