Reading epic : an introduction to the ancient narratives / Peter Toohey.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toohey, Peter, 1951-
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Subjects:
Epic poetry, Classical > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Epic poetry, Classical > History and criticism.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
History, Ancient, in literature.
Literature and history > Greece.
Literature and history > Rome.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Epic poetry.
Greek poetry.
Latin poetry.
Physical Description:xiii, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Epic : the genre, its characteristics
  • Homer, Iliad
  • Homer, Odyssey
  • Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica
  • Beginning epic in Rome
  • The Alexandrian miniature epic
  • Virgil, Aeneid
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses
  • Lucan, the Civil war
  • Roman epic and the emperor Domitian
  • Ends and beginnings : late ancient epic.