John Mavrogordato
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 1999 (reprint of 1956 edition).
cloth, dj.
Book Number 21547
A romantic epic from the heroic age of medieval Greece, Digenes Akrites celebraties the parentage, education, exploits and death of Twyoborn the Borderer. The son of an Arabian emir and a Greek generalšs daughter, Twyborn grew up in the Romanš empire. This book presents the complete text of the poem with facing translation that follows the Greek line for line and is rendered as literally as possible. The introducation gives an accoutn of the discovery of the text and other versions, as well as commentary and scholarly interpretation.