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

Micha Bzinkowski author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo

Published:6th Mar '18

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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. Michał 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.

ISBN: 9788323343301

Dimensions: 236mm x 150mm x 11mm

Weight: 234g

176 pages