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Epic interactions : perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the epic tradition : presented to Jasper Griffin by former pupils

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Epic interactions : perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the epic tradition : presented to Jasper Griffin by former pupils / edited by M.J. Clarke, B.G.F. Currie, and R.O.A.M. Lyne.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Additional Authors
  • Clarke, Michael (Michael J.)
  • Currie, Bruno.
  • Lyne, R. O. A. M.
Description
xiii, 441 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Homer > Criticism and interpretation
  • Homer > Influence
  • Virgil > Criticism and interpretation
  • Griffin, Jasper
  • Epic poetry, Classical > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-412) and indexes.
Contents
Homer and the early epic tradition / Bruno Currie -- Homer's religion : philological perspectives from Indo-European and Semitic / Simon Pulleyn -- Homer and Herodotus / Christopher Pelling -- Hellenistic epic and Homeric form / Gregory Hutchinson -- The Aeneid : inheritance and empire / Rebecca Armstrong -- The epic and the monuments : interactions between Virgil's Aeneid and the Augustan building programme / Stephen Harrison -- Augustan responses to the Aeneid / Matthew Robinson -- Statius and the sublimity of Capaneus / Matthew Leigh -- Achilles, Byrhtnoth, and Cú Chulainn : continuity and analogy from Homer to the medieval north / Michael Clarke -- Quantum Mutatus ab Illo : moments of change and recognition in Tasso and Milton / Emily Wilson.
Call Number
JFD 06-15897
ISBN
0199276307 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2006007427
OCLC
  • 64487068
  • vendorOCM64487068
Title
Epic interactions : perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the epic tradition : presented to Jasper Griffin by former pupils / edited by M.J. Clarke, B.G.F. Currie, and R.O.A.M. Lyne.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-412) and indexes.
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Clarke, Michael (Michael J.)
Currie, Bruno.
Lyne, R. O. A. M.
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JFD 06-15897
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