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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.

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

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This book focuses on the figure of Charos, widespread throughout the Hellenic world, including Cyprus and the Pontus region, and... Read more

    Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo
    Publication Date: 06/03/2018
    ISBN13: 9788323343301, 978-8323343301
    ISBN10: 8323343306

    Number of Pages: 176

    Non Fiction , History

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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.

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