Digenis Acritas by Boss

es el más conocido poema épico
de la literatura de la época bizantina.
Escrito en griego medieval por un autor anónimo del siglo XII,
el poema continuó la tradición de las canciones acritas y, con
ella, señala el inicio de la literatura griega vernácula.
La obra presenta las vivencias de un héroe acritaen los confines
orientales del Imperio, en la frontera del mundo islámico,
sobre el Éufrates.
El protagonista se llama Digenis (de doble origen), dado que es
hijo de una noble mujer romana y de un emir de Siria, y es
presentado como un hombre de estatura imponente.
Lucha contra animales, criaturas fantásticas, guerreros
enemigos o amazonas y vive aventuras amorosas.

It is the story of a half-breed
prince who guarded the
eastern border of the Roman
Empire of Byzantium on the
Euphrates in the tenth century.
His name and cognomen
sum up the curious richness of
the heritage: Roman by
politics, Arab and Cappadocian
by birth, Greek in
language and orthodox by
faith-Basil, the Two-Blood
Border Lord. On an incursion
into Byzantine territory,
an Arab Emir captures a
Christian lady. Her relatives, in
raiding to rescue her, convert
the Emir and his people to
Christianity and bring them
back to the Empire. Basil is
born of this union. A prodigy
of valor, his miraculous
strength in hunting and in
battle win him an Arab bride
and the loyalty of her family.
He settles in a splendid
garden palace by the Euphrates,
pacifies the Border, fights
dragons and bandits only to
die young at the same
instant as his wife. The poem in
English verse translation
is full of humor, fairy-tale, and
a moving religious
devotion. it recaptures an
urbane vanished civilization.
The translator has collated all
the known texts and
supports the translation with
commentary, a
bibliography, and a map.

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