Ancient Epic
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-4051-5948-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Ancient Epic" offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. It provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic. It offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context. It includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-5948-7 (9781405159487)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Katherine Callen King is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Chronologies.Map.1. Introduction.2. The Epic of Gilgamesh.3. The Context of Homeric Epic.4. The Iliad.5. The Odyssey.6. The Argonautika of Apollonios of Rhodes.7. The Context of Roman Epic.8. The Aeneid of Virgil.9. The Metamorphoses of Ovid.Appendix: Chart of Olympian Gods and their Akkadian Counterparts