Peter Toohey

Reading Epic

An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This survey offers guidance through the major classical writers of epic to readers new to the subject: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and the interface between epic and the novel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9780415555074
• ISBN-10: 0415555078
• Artikelnr.: 26682623

Autorenporträt

Peter Toohey

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction CHAPTER ONE: Epic: The genre
its characteristics CHAPTER TWO: Homer
Iliad CHAPTER THREE: Homer Odyssey CHAPTER FOUR: Apollonius of Rhodes
Argonautica CHAPTER FIVE: Beginning epic in Rome CHAPTER SIX: The Alexandrian Miniature Epic CHAPTER SEVEN: Virgil
Aeneid CHAPTER EIGHT: Ovid
Metamorphoses CHAPTER NINE: Lucan
the Civil War CHAPTER TEN: Roman Epic and the Emperor Domitian CHAPTER ELEVEN: Ends and Beginnings: Late Ancient epic APPENDIX: The Epic and the Novel Bibliography of works cited