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Ancient Epic

Ancient Epic
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Katherine Callen King
Wiley
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Artikel-Nr:
9781118255346
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.02.2012
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Katherine Callen King
Gewicht:
279 g
Format:
229x154x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Katherine Callen King is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
* Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic
* Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context
* Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts
Ancient epics remain a fount of inspiration for poets, dramatists, and musicians not only because they tell good stories in an aesthetically beautiful way, but also because they speak to contemporary hearts and minds still wrestling with timeless issues of human limitation, passion, violence, and uses and abuses of power.
Chronologies viii
 
Map x
 
Introduction 1
 
1 The Epic of Gilgamesh 14
 
2 The Context of Homeric Epic 33
 
3 The Iliad 52
 
4 The Odyssey 81
 
5 The Argonautika of Apollonios of Rhodes 106
 
6 The Context of Roman Epic 125
 
7 The Aeneid of Virgil 143
 
8 The Metamorphoses of Ovid 172
 
Appendix: Chart of Olympian Gods and their Akkadian Counterparts 189
 
Glossary of Greek and Latin terms 192
 
Index 193

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