The Path of the Argo

Informationen zum Autor R. J. Clare is currently Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. He was educated in Dublin and Cambridge and has held a research fellowship at the University of Manchester and a lectureship at the University of Durham. He is the author of articles on Homer, Apollonius Rhodius, Catullus and Virgil. Klappentext An innovative critical study emphasizing thematic and narrative complexities arising from the poet's use of language. Zusammenfassung Apollonius Rhodius' influential epic poem from the Hellenistic period is here examined from a number of perspectives! with the main emphasis on thematic and narrative complexities arising from the poet's use of language. Written in an accessible style! this book breaks new ground in the critical interpretation of the poem. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. There and Back Again: 1. Epic beginnings; 2. Outward bound; 3. Other journeys; 4. Homeward bound; Part II. Order and Disorder: 5. Patterns of action; 6. Orpheus and Medea; 7. Poetics and rhetoric.

Product details

• Authors: R. J. Clare, R.J. Clare
• Assisted by: P. E. Easterling (Editor), M. K. Hopkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2002
• EAN: 9780521810364
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81036-4
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 224 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies