Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The end of an affair: Anglo-Greek relations, 1939-1955 -- 2 'To cast our net very much wider': the re-opening of the British Council in Athens and its cultural activities in…
Called variously the 'Byzantine epic', the 'epic of Modern Greece', an 'epic-romance' and a 'romance', the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of d…
Called variously the 'Byzantine epic', the 'epic of Modern Greece', an 'epic-romance' and a 'romance', the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of d…