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Mantinades
Selected Love Distichs of CreteStylianos V. Spyridakis, editor & translator
Series/ Number Hellenism: Ancient, Mediaeval, Modern, 23
Pages/Illustr. 128 p.
Clothbound
Status: In Stock
ISBN: 0-89241-577-0
The Cretan mantinades belong to a common genre of popular folk poetry consisting of fifteen-syllable verses arranged in rhyming distichs or couplets found throughout the Greek world. They are products of a long tradition going back to the Venetian Renaissance period and beyond to Byzantium and antiquity. Mantinades still are improvised and sung on festive occasions. In this first publication of Cretan love distichs in English with facing Greek text, Dr. Spyridakis has collected 250 mantinades and has arranged them under some of the standard themes such as "Love," "Pain of Love," "Heart," "Beauty," "Eyes," and "Kisses." An introduction and a glossary round out the book.
Our Price: $30.00
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