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
Table des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
Katherine Callen King is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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