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Digenes Akrites
''Digenes Akritas'' (Latinisation of names, Latinised as ''Acritas''; ) is a medieval Greek Romance novel, romantic Epic poetry, epic that emerged in the 12th-century Byzantine Empire. It is the lengthiest and most famous of the acritic songs, Byzantine literature#Popular poetry, Byzantine folk poems celebrating the lives and exploits of the ''Akritai'', the inhabitants and frontier guards of the empire's eastern Anatolian Theme (Byzantine district), 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 to historical events may be only conjectural. Set during the Arab–Byzantine wars, Arab-Byzantine wars, the poem reflects the interactions, along with the military and cultural conflicts of the two polities. The epic consists of between 3,000 and 4,000 lines and it has been pieced together following the discovery of several manuscripts. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of Greece
The National Library of Greece () is the main public library of Greece, located in Athens. Founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, its mission is to locate, collect, organize, describe and preserve the perpetual evidence of Greek culture and its uptake over time, as well as important representative evidence of human intellectual production. The NLG ensures equal non-access to these items based on the freedom of knowledge, information, and research. There is one Director General who serves a four-year term. A board of trustees has seven members with a three or four-year term. Chrysa E. Nikolaou was appointed Director General in 2024. The previous Director General, Filippos Tsimpoglou, died after a brief illness in February 2023. History The original idea for establishing a National Library was from the philhellene Johann Jakob Mayer, in an August 1824 article of his newspaper , published at Missolonghi, where Mayer and Lord Byron had been promoting Greek War of Independence, Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
