Masks of Charos in Modern Greek Demotic Songs - Sources, Representations, and Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-83-233-4330-1
Verlag: Jagiellonian University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

This book focuses on the figure of Charos, widespread throughout the Hellenic world, including Cyprus and the Pontus region, and the folk mythology of modern Greece. Michal Bzinkowski, analyzing Greek demotic songs, especially mirologia (dirges) and the songs of the Underworld and Charos, as well as an Acritic cycle of alleged Byzantine origin, sets out to ascertain the characteristics of this enigmatic and ambiguous personage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bzinkowski, Micha

Bzinkowski, Michal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Neugriechische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Michal Bzinkowski is associate professor at the Department of Classics at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he teaches modern Greek language and modern Greek literature, as well as ancient Greek epic and lyric poetry. He is also a translator of modern Greek literature into Polish, including Seferis, Ritsos, Boukalas, Charalambides, and Akrivos.