Erotokritos remains a popular work still today, largely due to the music
that accompanies it when it is publicly recited. A particular type of rhyming
used in the traditional mantinades (popular songs used in various everyday
events, such as weddings, baptisms, celebrations, parties, reveries, etc.) was
also the one used in Erotokritos.
e poet narrates the trials and tribulations su ered by two young lovers,
Erotokritos and Aretousa, daughter of Heracles, King of Athens.
e play takes place in ancient Athens, but the world displayed is a complex
construct which does not correspond to any particular historical period.
Alongside references to classical Greece, there are anachronisms and many elements
peculiar to Western Europe, such as the jousting competition.
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