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Vasileios Digenis Akritas battling with Thanatos/Charon (death).
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Digenes Akrites (Greek: Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτης, pronounced [ðiʝeˈnis aˈkritis]), known in folksongs as Digenes Akritas (Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτας, [aˈkritas]) and also transliterated as Digenis Akritis, is the most famous of the Acritic Songs.
The epic details the life of the hero, Basil (Βασίλειος), whose epithet Digenes Akritas ("Two Blood Border Lord" or "Twain-born Borderer") refers to his mixed Byzantine-Cappadocian Greek and Arab blood. Digenis Akritas, the ideal medieval Greek hero, is a bold warrior of the Euphrates frontier, the son of a Saracen emir converted to Christianity by the daughter of a Byzantine general; he was a proficient warrior by the age of thirteen and spent the rest of his life defending the Byzantine Empire from frontier invaders. The remainder of the epic discusses, often from a first-person point of view, Basil's acts of heroism on the Byzantine border.
In the last act Digenis Akritas battles with death himself. The valour and battle skills of the hero are so great, that even the eternal creature Thanatos had to cheat in order to defeat our great warrior. This phenomenon of "cheaters" or "traitors" was used many times in the past in Greek literature, due to the popular belief that in a fair fight, no one could defeat them.
(This artwork is a commission for Mr.Scott Hieger.)
At this point I need to express my frustration for the unprofessional work that the printing shop did. This print is full of sparse black pixels and the golden lettering cannot be seen. I will make another post of this as soon as I have another proper scanning. Thank you for the understanding.
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Digenes Akrites (Greek: Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτης, pronounced [ðiʝeˈnis aˈkritis]), known in folksongs as Digenes Akritas (Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτας, [aˈkritas]) and also transliterated as Digenis Akritis, is the most famous of the Acritic Songs.
The epic details the life of the hero, Basil (Βασίλειος), whose epithet Digenes Akritas ("Two Blood Border Lord" or "Twain-born Borderer") refers to his mixed Byzantine-Cappadocian Greek and Arab blood. Digenis Akritas, the ideal medieval Greek hero, is a bold warrior of the Euphrates frontier, the son of a Saracen emir converted to Christianity by the daughter of a Byzantine general; he was a proficient warrior by the age of thirteen and spent the rest of his life defending the Byzantine Empire from frontier invaders. The remainder of the epic discusses, often from a first-person point of view, Basil's acts of heroism on the Byzantine border.
In the last act Digenis Akritas battles with death himself. The valour and battle skills of the hero are so great, that even the eternal creature Thanatos had to cheat in order to defeat our great warrior. This phenomenon of "cheaters" or "traitors" was used many times in the past in Greek literature, due to the popular belief that in a fair fight, no one could defeat them.
(This artwork is a commission for Mr.Scott Hieger.)
At this point I need to express my frustration for the unprofessional work that the printing shop did. This print is full of sparse black pixels and the golden lettering cannot be seen. I will make another post of this as soon as I have another proper scanning. Thank you for the understanding.
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TCS400
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