Digenes Akritas
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title:
Digenes Akritas
text:
Digenes 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 provinces. 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 t
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description:
12th-century Byzantine Greek epic poem
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digenes_Akritas
date created:
2005-04-23T16:16:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T12:23:52Z
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