A companion to ancient epic / edited by John Miles Foley.

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Other Authors: Foley, John Miles
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Series:Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.
Subjects:
Epic poetry > History and criticism.
Epic literature > History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Classical > History and criticism.
Klassieke talen.
Epiek.
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Physical Description:xxiv, 664 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
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.