Ancient Epic

Katherine Callen King (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2009
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-5947-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Katherine Callen King is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.4.2009
Reihe/Serie	Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 236 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4051-5947-2 / 1405159472
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-5947-0 / 9781405159470
Zustand	Neuware