A companion to ancient epic
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Foley, John Miles
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006, c2005.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxiv, 664 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
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| ISBN: | 1405105240 978-1-4051-0524-8 |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
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Table of contents |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
