Early Modern Greek verse: parallels and frameworks

Abstract

Verse in Early Modern Greek (EMG) first survives from the middle of the twelfth century, when the Ptochoprodromika and a handful of other poems were composed, probably. including the first form of the epicromance Digenis Akritis. After a gap in the thirteenth century, EMG verse reappears in the fourteenth, with two major genres, the chronicle (particularly the Chronicle of the Morea) and the romance. Surviving romances, depending on definition, are about a dozen, about half being original Greek works and half translation!:! from Western European originals. Other minor genres will play no partin this paper)