Ancient Epic

Höfundur: Katherine King (Útgáfa: 1)
Ancient Epic

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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.

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Útgefandi
Wiley Professional, Reference & Trade (Wiley K&L)
ISBN
9781118293454
Print ISBN
9781405159470
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Katherine King
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2012-02-13
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Half Title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Chronologies
  • Map
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the Six Epics
  • Divine Contexts
  • The Mesopotamian Divine Succession Myth
  • The Greek Divine Succession Myth
  • Cosmic Implications
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1: The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Further Reading Translations
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2: The Context of Homeric Epic
  • The Trojan War Epic Cycle
  • The Gods
  • Note on Spelling of Proper Names
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3: The Iliad
  • The Quarrel
  • Motivations for War
  • The Battlefield
  • Domestic Space: The Women
  • Temporarily Like Achilles: Diomedes
  • The Best of the Akhaians: Achilles
  • The Tragic Arc
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4: The Odyssey
  • Telemakhos
  • The Suitors
  • Odysseus
  • Penelope
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5: The Argonautika of Apollonios of Rhodes
  • The Alexandrian Context
  • The Argonautika before Apollonios
  • Apollonios’ Argonautika
  • Jason
  • The Gods
  • Medea
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6: The Context of Roman Epic
  • Rome: Legendary Beginnings
  • The March to Empire
  • Civil War
  • Intellectual Currents and the Aeneid
  • Homeric and Roman Epic
  • The Poets
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7: The Aeneid of Virgil
  • The Divine Apparatus
  • Dido and the Problem of Femininity
  • Aeneas as Odysseus
  • Turnus and the Problem of Achilles
  • Aeneas alius Achilles
  • Book 12
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Appendix: Chart of Olympian Gods and their Akkadian Counterparts
  • Glossary of Greek and Latin terms
  • Index