Katherine C. King

Ancient Epic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ancient epics remain a fount of inspiration for poets, dramatists, and musicians not only because they tell good stories in an aesthetically beautiful way, but also because they speak to contemporary hearts and minds still wrestling with timeless issues of human limitation, passion, violence, and uses and abuses of power.

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Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessibleintroduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer s Iliad and Odyssey , Vergil s Aeneid , Ovid s Metamorphoses , and Apollonius of Rhodes Agonautica .

Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic
Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensivehistorical context
Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings,and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadiancounterparts

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 229mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9781118255346
• ISBN-10: 1118255348
• Artikelnr.: 34999637

Autorenporträt

Katherine Callen King is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronologies viii Map x Introduction 1 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh 14 2 The
Context of Homeric Epic 33 3 The Iliad 52 4 The Odyssey 81 5 The
Argonautika of Apollonios of Rhodes 106 6 The Context of Roman Epic 125 7
The Aeneid of Virgil 143 8 The Metamorphoses of Ovid 172 Appendix: Chart of
Olympian Gods and their Akkadian Counterparts 189 Glossary of Greek and
Latin terms 192 Index 193