Ανακάλημα της Κωνσταντινόπολης [A lament for Constantinople]

KRIARAS ANAKALIMA

Emm. Kriaras (ed.)

ISBN 978-960-231-151-6

Edition: 2012

Pages: 152

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A lament for Constantinople is one of the most beautiful historical folk ‘laments’ for the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In its 118 verses, it realistically depicts not only the war scenes of the siege, but also the suffering of the enslaved Christians immediately after the Fall, and brings back to life, in a way both lyric and tragic, the personality of the last emperor of Byzantium, Constantine Palaeologus.

Behind the anonymous creator lies perhaps a scholarly poet, well educated in both history and folk poetry, since he preserves several of the virtues of folk songs. In this new, revised edition, professor Emm. Kriaras returns to the familiar area of a poem that first became the focus of his study five decades ago, this time with more information on the poem’s language and its provenance.

In the Appendix, professor G. Kechagioglou provides additional information about the rich and diverse literature on the Fall, summarizes the most recent philological and critical evaluations of the poem, and discusses its ideological determination. The accompanying texts in verse, at the end of the Appendix, include a selection of folk poems/laments on the same theme (mid-15th – early 16th century), folk songs, and more recent poems.

The author was professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a correspondent member of the Athens Academy of Letters, and was honored with numerous medals and awards both in Greece and abroad. He had been appointed by Manolis Triandaphyllidis himself as one of the members of the first Board of Directors of the Institute of Modern Greek Studies, and served as General Secretary from 1959 to 1968, when the military regime dismissed him from the university due to his democratic beliefs.

Full title Ανακάλημα της Κωνσταντινόπολης [A lament for Constantinople]
Author Emm. Kriaras (ed.)
Editing / Translation Appendix: G. Kechagioglou
Edition 2012
ISBN 978-960-231-151-6
Series Earlier Modern Greek Literary Texts 4
Pages 152
Size 15,5x24
Weight 0,305
Binding Paperback
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