A companion to ancient epic / edited by John Miles Foley. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.Publication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., (c)2005.Description: xxiv, 664 pages : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN.F663.C667 2005
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Contents:
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 Due ; -- 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 Due ; -- 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.

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