The Slavic Akathistos Hymn : Poetic Elements of the Byzantine Text and Its Old Church Slavonic Translation

• Tác giả: Antonina F Gove
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3954792160
• ISBN: b12731
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 1988
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (290 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 241028
• Chủ đề: 1. Literature & literary studies

Tóm tắt

This work offers a detailed analysis of the Slavic translation of a sixth-century Greek liturgical poem that is representative of the poetic genius of the best of the Byzantine melodes. The immediate goal has been to discover to what degree the poetic elements of the original text were reproduced in the translation. The analysis illuminates the question of the quality of the Slavic translations of Byzantine liturgical hymns.