ABSTRACT
The anonymous Akathistos of 24 strophes is the famous Byzantine Incarnation hymn in praise of Mary.1 It is by far the most studied piece of Byzantine hymnography, but as my study, The Image of the Virgin Mary in the Akathistos Hymn,2 provides the only complete analysis of the hymn’s contents, thereby considering, strophe for strophe, all the Marian epithets, the frame of reference in this chapter is restricted to it.
