Ancient Epic

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Callen King is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica.* Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic* Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context* Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts Zusammenfassung Ancient epics remain a fount of inspiration for poets, dramatists, and musicians not only because they tell good stories in an aesthetically beautiful way, but also because they speak to contemporary hearts and minds still wrestling with timeless issues of human limitation, passion, violence, and uses and abuses of power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronologies viii Map x Introduction 1 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh 14 2 The Context of Homeric Epic 33 3 The Iliad 52 4 The Odyssey 81 5 The Argonautika of Apollonios of Rhodes 106 6 The Context of Roman Epic 125 7 The Aeneid of Virgil 143 8 The Metamorphoses of Ovid 172 Appendix: Chart of Olympian Gods and their Akkadian Counterparts 189 Glossary of Greek and Latin terms 192 Index 193

Product details

• Authors: K King, Katherine C. King, Katherine Callen King, Katherine Callen (University of California King, King Katherine Callen
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2012
• EAN: 9781118255346
• ISBN: 978-1-118-25534-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World; Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World; Blackwell Introductions to the
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Altertum, Literature, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Ancient History, Classical Studies, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Humanistische Studien, Antike u. klassische Literatur, Ancient & Classical Literature, mündliche Überlieferung, Volksdichtung, Mythologie, Oral Literature, Folk Literature, Mythology