description: Drawing on a wealth of ancient and modern sources, Charles Rowan Beye offers enlightening interpretations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and of two other epic masterpieces--Apollonius's Argonautica and Virgil's Aeneid "An authoritative book about classical epic, with a fine-tuned sense for literature as literature, written by a scholar who really knows how to write."--Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
language: English
title: Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil
titlecomplete: Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil
genres: Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Cornell Univ Pr