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A companion to ancient epic
- Title
- A companion to ancient epic / edited by John Miles Foley.
- Publication
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Foley, John Miles.
- Description
- xxiv, 664 p. : ill., map; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- PN1317
- ISBN
- 1405105240 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004018322
- 9781405105248 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC
- 56103776
- Title
- A companion to ancient epic / edited by John Miles Foley.
- Imprint
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
- Series
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Foley, John Miles.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781405105248 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR PN1317 .C66 2005