Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Medieval Greek Texts, Vol. 1: Being a Collection of the Earliest Compositions in Vulgar Greek, Prior to the Year 1500; Containing Seven Poems, Three of Which Appear Here for the First Time, With an Essay on the Greek Version of Apollonius of Tyre
We have no popular song Of the period of Eustathius (c. But we possess a song, only recently discovered by Zampelios, and which contains a fabulous account Of a certain Andronikos, in whom Max Biidinger3� justly re cognizes Andronikos, an adventurer who, in the twelfth century, led a romantic existence, now on the battle-field, now near the throne, now in prison now with Greeks, and then again on the side of the Infidels, and finally on the throne Of Constantinople. M. Biidinger justly shows that the whole account is too fabulous to suppose that this poem can belong to the same period as the events of which it treats; but, on the other hand, the language in which it is written is of such a nature as to forbid us to assign its composition to any date much later than the fourteenth century. Though, therefore, not the first composition in the new language, as Zampelios imagined, the poem yet should not be left unmentioned in a treatise on the earliest Specimens of Romaic.
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