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grbs-1511	Elizbarashvili, Eliso	The Formation of a Hero in Digenes Akrites	2010	24	.pdf	application/pdf	8829	331	62	On the basis of these historical and geographical identifications Grégoire created the Paulician theory, that the Digenes epos echoes the Paulician heresy that is reflected only in the Slavic version of the poem; the archetype of the Greek versions, especially G and E, is the result of loyalist revision: H. Grégoire, “Note sur le Digénis slave,” Byzantion 10 (1935) 335– 339; “Notes on the Byzantine Epic: The Greek Folk-songs and their Im- ELISO ELIZBARASHVILI 439 ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 50 (2010) 437–460 tifications and their importance has led to a paradoxical and illogical conclusion—that the Greek versions of Digenes Akrites have survived in such modified and distorted form that they have almost nothing in common with the archetype. Ἀκϰρϱίτης 131, Διγενής 89, and Βασίλειος 22; in E Ἀκϰρϱίτης 35, Διγενής 22, Βασίλειος 2, and Βασίλης 2. 24 A. R. Dyck “The Taming of Digenes: The Plan of Digenes Akrites, Grottaferrata Version, Book VI,” GRBS 35 (1994) 293–308: the episode of Digenes’ meeting with the emperor serves to demonstrate the independence and importance of the hero, as does the meeting with the Apelatai.	cache/grbs-1511.pdf	txt/grbs-1511.txt