TY - BOOK ID - 136955090 TI - The Slavic Akathistos Hymn : Poetic Elements of the Byzantine Text and Its Old Church Slavonic Translation PY - 1988 PB - Frankfurt a.M. PH02 DB - UniCat KW - Akathistos KW - Altkirchenslavisch KW - Byzantine KW - Church KW - Elements KW - Gove KW - Hymn KW - Philologie KW - Poetic KW - Poetik KW - Russland KW - Slavic KW - Slavische Sprachwissenschaft KW - Slavonic KW - Text KW - Translation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136955090 AB - 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. ER -