Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780415042277 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 262 str.

Peter Toohey;Toohey Peter

Opis

Individual epics have been catered for by many scholarly books. However, few of these are ever easily accessible to the student of ancient literarure in translation or to the general reader. This book addresses the needs of these readers. Peter Toohey surveys all the major classical epics: he begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between epic and the novel. Reading Epic offers an interpretation of the meaning (not simply a description of the story) of these poems within the likely intellectual constraints of the era in which they were written. In most cases these readings are provided within the format of interpretative paraphrase. The intention is to help new readers with the story and with its ideas at the same time, thus providing introductions to the central Greek and Latin epics, and to the genre as a whole.

Spis treści

Introduction CHAPTER ONE: Epic: The genre, its characteristics CHAPTER TWO: Homer, Iliad CHAPTER THREE: Homer Odyssey CHAPTER FOUR: Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica CHAPTER FIVE: Beginning epic in Rome CHAPTER SIX: The Alexandrian Miniature Epic CHAPTER SEVEN: Virgil, Aeneid CHAPTER EIGHT: Ovid, Metamorphoses CHAPTER NINE: Lucan, the Civil War CHAPTER TEN: Roman Epic and the Emperor Domitian CHAPTER ELEVEN: Ends and Beginnings: Late Ancient epic APPENDIX: The Epic and the Novel Bibliography of works cited

O autorze

Peter Toohey