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Blackwell Pub.
Language
English
Pages
664

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Subjects
Epic literature, Classical Epic poetry, Epic poetry, History and criticism, Epic literature, history and criticism, Epic poetry, history and criticism, Epiek, Klassieke talen, Littérature épique, Histoire et critique, Poésie épique ancienne, Poésie épique

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Cover of: Companion to Ancient Epic
Companion to Ancient Epic
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Companion to Ancient Epic
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
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Companion to Ancient Epic
2008, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
in English
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2005, Blackwell Pub.
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Table of Contents

Introduction / John Miles Foley
Epic as genre / Richard P. Martin
The Indo-European context / Joshua T. Katz
Epic and myth / Lowell Edmunds
Performance / Minna Skafte Jensen
Epic and history / Kurt A. Raaflaub
The epic hero / Gregory Nagy
The gods in epic, or, The divine economy / Bruce Louden
Women in epic / Helene P. Foley
Archaeological contexts / Susan Sherratt
The physical media : tablet, scroll, codex / Michael W. Haslam
Ancient reception / Robert Lamberton
Translations / Richard Hamilton Armstrong
Analogues : modern oral epics / John Miles Foley
Comparative observations on the Near Eastern epic traditions / Jack M. Sasson
Mesopotamian epic / Scott B. Noegel
Epic in Ugaritic literature / N. Wyatt
Hurrian/Hittite epic / Gary Beckman
Persian/Iranian epic / Olga M. Davidson
Hebrew epic / Susan Niditch
Near Eastern connections / Walter Burkert
Homer's Iliad / Mark W. Edwards
Homer's Odyssey / Laura M. Slatkin
Hesiod / Stephanie Nelson
Epic cycle and fragments / Jonathan S. Burgess
Apollonius of Rhodes / D. P. Nelis
Quintus of Smyrna / Alan James
Nonnus / Robert Shorrock
Epic and other genres in the ancient Greek world / R. Scott Garner
Homer's post-classical legacy / Casey Dué
Origins and essence / Joseph Farrell
Early republican epic / Sander M. Goldberg
Lucretius / Monica R. Gale
Virgil's Aeneid / Michael C. J. Putnam
Ovid / Carole E. Newlands
Lucan / Shadi Bartsch
Valerius Flaccus / Andrew Zissos
Statius / William J. Dominik
Silius Italicus / Raymond D. Marks
Claudian / Michael H. Barnes
Latin Christian epics of late antiquity / Dennis E. Trout
Epic and other genres / R. Jenkyns
Virgil's post-classical legacy / Craig Kallendorf.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Malden, MA
Series
Blackwell companions to the ancient world.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809.1/32
Library of Congress
PN1317 .C66 2005, PN1317.C66 2005

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Pagination
xxiv, 664 p. :
Number of pages
664

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Open Library
OL3295645M
Internet Archive
companiontoancie00fole
ISBN 10
1405105240
LCCN
2004018322
OCLC/WorldCat
1080632367, 56103776
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144087

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