|  | King, Katherine Callen
Ancient Epic
Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
 1. Auflage Februar 2012
25,90 Euro
2012. 218 Seiten, Softcover
ISBN 978-1-118-25534-6 - John Wiley & Sons
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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. This book discusses six major epics across the Homeric and Roman traditions, situating each poem in its historical context and providing helpful interpretations, a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts.
Aus dem Inhalt
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
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