Masks Of Charos In Modern Greek Demotic Songs ¿ Sources, Representations, And Context

This book focuses on the figure of Charos, widespread throughout the Hellenic world, including Cyprus and the Pontus region, and the folk mythology of modern Greece. Michal Bzinkowski analyzes Greek demotic songs, especially mirologia (dirges) and the songs of the Underworld and Charos, as well as an Acritic cycle of alleged Byzantine origin.