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245 02 $aA companion to ancient epic /$cedited by John Miles Foley.
260 $aMalden, MA ;$aOxford :$bBlackwell Pub.,$c2005.
300 $axxiv, 664 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c26 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aBlackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [589]-650) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rJohn Miles Foley --$g1.$tEpic as genre /$rRichard P. Martin --$g2.$tThe Indo-European context /$rJoshua T. Katz --$g3.$tEpic and myth /$rLowell Edmunds --$g4.$tPerformance /$rMinna Skafte Jensen --$g5.$tEpic and history /$rKurt A. Raaflaub --$g6.$tThe epic hero /$rGregory Nagy --$g7.$tThe gods in epic, or the divine economy /$rBruce Louden --$g8.$tWomen in ancient epic /$rHelene P. Foley --$g9.$tArchaeological contexts /$rSusan Sherratt --$g10.$tThe physical media : tablet, scroll, codex /$rMichael W. Haslam --$g11.$tAncient reception /$rRobert Lamberton --$g12.$tTranslating ancient epic /$rRichard Hamilton Armstrong --$g13.$tAnalogues : modern oral epics /$rJohn Miles Foley --$g14.$tComparative observations on the Near Eastern epic traditions /$rJack M. Sasson --$g15.$tMesopotamian epic /$rScott B. Noegel --$g16.$tEpic in Ugaritic literature /$rN. Wyatt --$g17.$tHittite and Hurrian epic /$rGary Beckman --$g18.$tPersian/Iranian epic /$rOlga M. Davidson --$g19.$tThe challenge of Israelite epic /$rSusan Niditch --$g20.$tNear Eastern connections /$rWalter Burkert --$g21.$tHomer's Iliad /$rMark W. Edwards --$g22.$tHomer's Odyssey /$rLaura M. Slatkin --$g23.$tHesiod /$rStephanie Nelson --$g24.$tThe epic cycle and fragments /$rJonathan S. Burgess --$g25.$tApollonius of Rhodes /$rD. P. Nelis --$g26.$tQuintus of Smyrna /$rAlan James --$g27.$tNonnus /$rRobert Shorrock --$g28.$tEpic and other genres in the ancient Greek world /$rR. Scott Garner --$g29.$tHomer's post-classical legacy /$rCasey Due --$g30.$tThe origins and essence of Roman epic /$rJoseph Farrell --$g31.$tEarly republican epic /$rSander M. Goldberg --$g32.$tLucretius /$rMonica R. Gale --$g33.$tVirgil's Aeneid /$rMichael C. J. Putnam --$g34.$tOvid /$rCarole E. Newlands --$g35.$tLucan /$rShadi Bartsch --$g36.$tValerius Flaccus /$rAndrew Zissos --$g37.$tStatius /$rWilliam J. Dominik --$g38.$tSilius Italicus /$rRaymond D. Marks --$g39.$tClaudian /$rMichael H. Barnes --$g40.$tLatin Christian epics of late antiquity /$rDennis E. Trout --$g41.$tEpic and other genres in the Roman world /$rR. Jenkyns --$g42.$tVirgil's post-classical legacy /$rCraig Kallendorf.
520 1 $a"A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic. It offers a multidisciplinary discussion of both longstanding ideas and newer perspectives. A key feature of the volume, designed to make the book as useful as possible, is the index of poems, poets, technical terms, important figures, and other relevant literary and artistic works. The Companion will be required reading for all students of ancient literature."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEpic poetry$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103288
650 0 $aEpic literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103110
650 0 $aEpic poetry, Classical$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008119808
700 1 $aFoley, John Miles.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81146185
830 0 $aBlackwell companions to the ancient world.$pLiterature and culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004036364
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004018322.html
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