Erotokritos (Greek Edition)

Erotokritos (Greek Edition) image
ISBN-10:

1784350389

ISBN-13:

9781784350383

Released: Feb 13, 2014
Publisher: JiaHu Books
Format: Paperback, 314 pages
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Description:

Erotokritos is a romance composed by Vitsentzos Kornaros in early 17th century Crete. It consists of 10,012 fifteen-syllable rhymed verses, the last twelve of which refer to the poet himself. It is written in the Cretan dialect of the Greek language. Its central theme is love between Erotokritos (only referred to the work as Rotokritos or Rokritos) and Aretousa. Around this theme, revolve other themes such as honour, friendship, bravery and courage.











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