| Description |
1 online resource (263 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; 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; APPENDIX: THE EPIC AND THE NOVEL; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-241) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Epic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Epic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism
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History, Ancient, in literature.
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Literature and history -- Greece
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Literature and history -- Italy -- Rome
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Mythology, Classical, in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Epic poetry, Classical
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History, Ancient, in literature
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Literature and history
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Mythology, Classical, in literature
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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Greece
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Italy -- Rome
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
92007032 |
| ISBN |
9780203169124 |
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0203169123 |
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1134952171 |
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9781134952175 |
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0203285433 |
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9780203285435 |
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