Cease Writing of Achilles: A Narratological Commentary on the Byzantine Heroic Poem Digenis Akritis

Markéta Kulhánková is a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associate professor at Masaryk University. Her research focuses on Byzantine narrative, with additional interests in the modern reception of Byzantium. She also translates Byzantine and Modern Greek literature into Czech.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Versions and Historical Background2 Literary Characteristics3 Narrative Structure4 The Narrator5 Characters6 Space7 TimeHow to use the CommentaryCommentaryBook 1 of Basileios Digenis Akritis, the Frontiersman of Double DescentBook 2: The Birth of the FrontiersmanBook 3: The Return from Syria with his MotherBook 4Book 5Book 6Book 7Book 8: His DeathGlossary of Narratological Terms and Literary DevicesBibliographyIndex of Themes and Motifs