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Zusatztext ...a reference work of enduring value...I will be returning to it over the coming years, and I expect many others will as well. Informationen zum Autor M. J. Clarke is Lecturer in Classics, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth.B. G. F. Currie is Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Oriel College, and Lecturer, Oxford University.The late R. O. A. M. Lyne was formerly Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford. Klappentext This collection of essays, written by former pupils, celebrates the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic. The volume surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. Individual chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context; the Augustan poets and the Aeneid; Statius' Thebaid; Old English and Old Irish epic; Renaissance epic: Tasso and Milton; and the Victorians. The aim of the book is to situate writers of epic in their literary and cultural contexts--an enterprise captured in the term "interaction" in the title. The chapters singly offer insights into some of the foundational poems of the European epic tradition and together take a bold, holistic look at that tradition. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays celebrating the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic, surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Bruno Currie: Homer and the Early Epic Tradition 2: Simon Pulleyn: Homer's Religion: Philological Perspectives from Indo-European and Semitic 3: Christopher Pelling: Homer and Herodotus 4: Gregory Hutchinson: Hellenistic Epic and Homeric Form 5: Rebecca Armstrong: The Aeneid: Inheritance and Empire 6: Stephen Harrison: The Epic and Monuments: Interactions between Virgil's Aeneid and the Augustan Building Programme 7: Matthew Robinson: Augustan Responses to the Aeneid 8: Matthew Leigh: Statius and the Sublimity of Capaneus 9: Michael Clarke: Achilles, Beowulf, and Cu Chulainn: Continuity and Analogy from Homer to the Medieval North 10: Emily Wilson: Quantum mutatus ab illo: Moments of Change and Recognition in Tasso and Milton 11: Richard Jenkyns: The Idea of Epic in the Nineteenth Century 12: Bruno Currie: Epilogue ...
