Beaton, Roderick and David Ricks, eds. Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry. Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, Publications, 2. Aldershot, Hampshire; Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1993. xi, 196 p.

ISBN 0860783952; 9780860783954

Contains: Paul Magdalino, "Digenes Akrites and Byzantine Literature: the Twelfth-Century Background to the Grottaferrata Version" (pp. 1-14); Stylianos Alexiou, "Digenes Akrites: Escorial or Grottaferrata? An Overview" (pp. 15-25); Elizabeth Jeffreys, "The Grottaferrata Version of Digenes Akrites: a Reassessment" (pp. 26-37); Catia Galariotou, "The Primacy of the Escorial Digenes Akrites: an Open and Shut Case?" (pp. 38-54); Roderick Beaton, "An Epic in the Making? The Early Versions of Digenes Akrites" (pp. 55- 72); David Hook, "Digenes Akrites and the Old Spanish Epics" (pp. 73-85); Hratch Bartikian, "Armenia and Armenians in the Byzantine Epic" (pp. 86-92); Anthony Bryer, "The Historian's Digenes Akrites" (pp. 93-102); Ulrich Moennig, "Digenes = Alexander? The Relationships between Digenes Akrites and the Byzantine Alexander Romance in Their Different Versions" (pp. 103-115); George Kechagioglou, "Digenes Akrites in Prose: the Andros Version in the Context of Modern Greek Literature" (pp. 116-130); Theodore Papadopoullos, "The Akritic Hero: Socio-Cultural Status in the Light of Comparative Data" (pp. 131-138); Guy Saunier, "Is There Such a Thing as an 'Akritic Song'? Problems in the Classification of Modern Greek Narrative Songs" (pp. 139-149); Peter Mackridge, "'None But the Brave Deserve the Fair': Abduction, Elopement, Seduction and Marriage in the Escorial Digenes Akrites and Modern Greek Heroic Songs" (pp. 150-160); David Ricks, "Digenes Akrites as Literature" (pp. 161-170).