Peter Toohey

Epic Lessons

An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Didactic epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects - in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was aimed to instruct and entertain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780415862240
• ISBN-10: 0415862248
• Artikelnr.: 37318065

Autorenporträt

Peter Toohey is Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, New South Wales. He is the author of Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives (1992), and has edited, with Mark Golden Reconstructing the Past: Historicism, Periodisation and the Ancient World (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Who Reads Didactic Epic? 2. Word of Mouth. Orality and
Didactic Poetry from Hesiod to Empedocles 3. The Universe as a Book.
Alexandrian Literacy and the Poems of Aratus and Nicander 4. Roman Renewal.
Cicero and Lucretius 5. Politics, Power and Play. Polyphony in Virgil's
Georgics and Ovid's Fasti 6. Amusements for a Smoky December. Horace on
Poetry and Ovid on Eros 7. Humans, Nature and God. Epic Lessons in the
First Century 8. Resisting Instinct. Hunting, Fishing, Science, and God 9.
Didactic Dinners. Instruction in Narrative Epic and in the Novel 10. A
Literary History of Leisure? The Didactic Epic. Bibliography.