Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions(Cambridge Medieval Classics)

Series: Cambridge Medieval Classics

"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 versions, of which the two oldest are edited here. This edition and translation aims to highlight the nature of the lost poem, and to provide a guide throug