The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: digenes akrites

bears with swords

16 April 2016, around 18.55.

Plate with loversIn the same sense that The Need for Roots is primarily concerned with finding reasons for the fall of France and the Vichy government, Mavrogordato’s introduction to Digenes Akrites – while still an entertaining and enlightening excursion through the manuscript tradition and historical context of the poem – is less about Byzantine poetry […]

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