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

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) 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 Analysis Epic poetry Greek poetry Latin poetry Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-241) and index Notes Print version record Subject Epic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Epic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism History, Ancient, in literature. Literature and history -- Greece Literature and history -- Rome Mythology, Classical, in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500 Rhetoric, Ancient. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Epic poetry, Classical History, Ancient, in literature Literature and history Mythology, Classical, in literature Narration (Rhetoric) Rhetoric, Ancient Poesia epica grega. Historia antiga -- grecia (literatura) Historia antiga -- roma (literatura) Greece Rome (Empire) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203169124 0203169123 9780415042277 0415042275 9780415042284 0415042283

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