Author: Anaxagorou Nadia

Publication date: 2013

Number of pages / Dimensions: 156 / 24x17

ISBN: 978-9963-9436-6-1
 

Book comment:

Through his perpetual resort to self-contained stories or exegeses, which are fully detachable from the overall framework of the Chronicle and destined for oral recitation to a live audience, Leontios Machairas stands out as a leading storyteller of the Greek world during Frankish rule and becomes the first Greek prose-writer, who composes his narrative in the vernacular, the Cypriot dialect of late 14^th and early 15^th century. 

The bilingual (Greek/English) book “Leontios Machairas, Exegeses in Remembrance of Time and Place” by Nadia Anaxagorou (Schinovatis Editions, Lefkosia 2013) presents some of the most exciting exegeses, providing a thorough analysis of their stylistic features and a commentary on their visual delineation in fourteen drawings by Lefteris Olympios.  The excerpts from the medieval text and their translation into English are taken from R.M. Dawkins edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932).