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With the treatment of the love theme as a criterion , the Byzantine Achilleid seems to be more closely related to the traditional erotic romances than the Digenes Akrites ( in all its versions ) is , and the Digenes Akrites again seems ...
With the treatment of the love theme as a criterion , the Byzantine Achilleid seems to be more closely related to the traditional erotic romances than the Digenes Akrites ( in all its versions ) is , and the Digenes Akrites again seems ...
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There are erotic romances and romances which combine a love story with an historical theme ( and a few instances of texts which focus primarily on events ) . Love theme and historical theme are combined in different ways : the Achilleid ...
There are erotic romances and romances which combine a love story with an historical theme ( and a few instances of texts which focus primarily on events ) . Love theme and historical theme are combined in different ways : the Achilleid ...
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In the course of time themes and , especially , motifs are added to the basic skills , and in combining these elements the storyteller is left with hundreds of possibilities . The tales may be made longer or shorter , two themes may be ...
In the course of time themes and , especially , motifs are added to the basic skills , and in combining these elements the storyteller is left with hundreds of possibilities . The tales may be made longer or shorter , two themes may be ...
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| Title | Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, Issue 7 |
| Contributor | University of Cambridge. Modern Greek Section |
| Publisher | Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2008 |
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