Libro de Apolonio I

The legend of Apollonius belongs to the type of fictive literature known as the Greek romance cultivated by the Greek-speaking peoples of the Mediterranean during the first to fourth century and which was translated into Latin and romance languages.But the original text in Greek has been lost. A Spanish version appeared in the thirteenth century, written seemingly by an unknown cleric and in the erudite form of cuaderna vía （four-fold way）, whose style has been called mester de clerecía（scholarsʼ art）as compared with mester de juglaría（minstrelsʼ work）. This time, a translation is made from the first strophe to the strophe 180