An edition of A companion to ancient epic
(2005)
A companion to ancient epic
by John Miles Foley
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Companion to Ancient Epic
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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1405153040 9781405153041
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Companion to Ancient Epic
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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0470794895 9780470794890
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Book Details
Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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