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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Epic literature--History and criticism.<br/>Epic poetry--History and criticism.<br/>Epic poetry, Classical--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN.F663.C667 2005