A companion to ancient epic /
A companion to ancient epic / [print]
edited by John Miles Foley.
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., (c)2005.
- xxiv, 664 pages : illustrations, map.
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture .
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction/ Epic as genre/ The Indo-European context/ Epic and myth/ Performance/ Epic and history/ The epic hero/ The gods in epic, or, The divine economy/ Women in epic/ Archaeological contexts/ The physical media : tablet, scroll, codex/ Ancient reception/ Translations/ Analogues : modern oral epics/ Comparative observations on the Near Eastern epic traditions/ Mesopotamian epic/ Epic in Ugaritic literature/ Hurrian/Hittite epic/ Persian/Iranian epic/ Hebrew epic/ Near Eastern connections/ Homer's Iliad/ Homer's Odyssey/ Hesiod/ Epic cycle and fragments/ Apollonius of Rhodes/ Quintus of Smyrna/ Nonnus/ Epic and other genres in the ancient Greek world/ Homer's post-classical legacy/ Origins and essence/ Early republican epic/ Lucretius/ Virgil's Aeneid/ Ovid/ Lucan/ Valerius Flaccus/ Statius/ Silius Italicus/ Claudian/ Latin Christian epics of late antiquity/ Epic and other genres/ Virgil's post-classical legacy/ John Miles Foley ; -- Richard P. Martin ; -- Joshua T. Katz ; -- Lowell Edmunds ; -- Minna Skafte Jensen ; -- Kurt A. Raaflaub ; -- Gregory Nagy ; -- Bruce Louden ; -- Helene P. Foley ; -- Susan Sherratt ; -- Michael W. Haslam ; -- Robert Lamberton ; -- Richard Hamilton Armstrong ; -- John Miles Foley ; -- Jack M. Sasson ; -- Scott B. Noegel ; -- N. Wyatt ; -- Gary Beckman ; -- Olga M. Davidson ; -- Susan Niditch ; -- Walter Burkert ; -- Mark W. Edwards ; -- Laura M. Slatkin ; -- Stephanie Nelson ; -- Jonathan S. Burgess ; -- D. P. Nelis ; -- Alan James ; -- Robert Shorrock ; -- R. Scott Garner ; -- Casey Due ; -- Joseph Farrell ; -- Sander M. Goldberg ; -- Monica R. Gale ; -- Michael C. J. Putnam ; -- Carole E. Newlands ; -- Shadi Bartsch ; -- Andrew Zissos ; -- William J. Dominik ; -- Raymond D. Marks ; -- Michael H. Barnes ; -- Dennis E. Trout ; -- R. Jenkyns ; -- Craig Kallendorf.
Epic literature--History and criticism.
Epic poetry--History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Classical--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN.P965.C667 2005
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction/ Epic as genre/ The Indo-European context/ Epic and myth/ Performance/ Epic and history/ The epic hero/ The gods in epic, or, The divine economy/ Women in epic/ Archaeological contexts/ The physical media : tablet, scroll, codex/ Ancient reception/ Translations/ Analogues : modern oral epics/ Comparative observations on the Near Eastern epic traditions/ Mesopotamian epic/ Epic in Ugaritic literature/ Hurrian/Hittite epic/ Persian/Iranian epic/ Hebrew epic/ Near Eastern connections/ Homer's Iliad/ Homer's Odyssey/ Hesiod/ Epic cycle and fragments/ Apollonius of Rhodes/ Quintus of Smyrna/ Nonnus/ Epic and other genres in the ancient Greek world/ Homer's post-classical legacy/ Origins and essence/ Early republican epic/ Lucretius/ Virgil's Aeneid/ Ovid/ Lucan/ Valerius Flaccus/ Statius/ Silius Italicus/ Claudian/ Latin Christian epics of late antiquity/ Epic and other genres/ Virgil's post-classical legacy/ John Miles Foley ; -- Richard P. Martin ; -- Joshua T. Katz ; -- Lowell Edmunds ; -- Minna Skafte Jensen ; -- Kurt A. Raaflaub ; -- Gregory Nagy ; -- Bruce Louden ; -- Helene P. Foley ; -- Susan Sherratt ; -- Michael W. Haslam ; -- Robert Lamberton ; -- Richard Hamilton Armstrong ; -- John Miles Foley ; -- Jack M. Sasson ; -- Scott B. Noegel ; -- N. Wyatt ; -- Gary Beckman ; -- Olga M. Davidson ; -- Susan Niditch ; -- Walter Burkert ; -- Mark W. Edwards ; -- Laura M. Slatkin ; -- Stephanie Nelson ; -- Jonathan S. Burgess ; -- D. P. Nelis ; -- Alan James ; -- Robert Shorrock ; -- R. Scott Garner ; -- Casey Due ; -- Joseph Farrell ; -- Sander M. Goldberg ; -- Monica R. Gale ; -- Michael C. J. Putnam ; -- Carole E. Newlands ; -- Shadi Bartsch ; -- Andrew Zissos ; -- William J. Dominik ; -- Raymond D. Marks ; -- Michael H. Barnes ; -- Dennis E. Trout ; -- R. Jenkyns ; -- Craig Kallendorf.
Epic literature--History and criticism.
Epic poetry--History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Classical--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN.P965.C667 2005