A companion to ancient epic
By: edited by John Miles Foley.
Contributors: Foley, John Miles.
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 664
Subjects: Epic poetry -- History and criticism.; Epic literature -- History and criticism.; Epic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John Miles Foley; title: Epic as genre / Richard P. Martin; title: The Indo-European context / Joshua T. Katz; title: Epic and myth / Lowell Edmunds; title: Performance / Minna Skafte Jensen; title: Epic and history / Kurt A. Raaflaub; title: The epic hero / Gregory Nagy; title: The gods in epic, or, The divine economy / Bruce Louden; title: Women in epic / Helene P. Foley; title: Archaeological contexts / Susan Sherratt; title: The physical media : tablet, scroll, codex / Michael W. Haslam; title: Ancient reception / Robert Lamberton; title: Translations / Richard Hamilton Armstrong; title: Analogues : modern oral epics / John Miles Foley; title: Comparative observations on the Near Eastern epic traditions / Jack M. Sasson; title: Mesopotamian epic / Scott B. Noegel; title: Epic in Ugaritic literature / N. Wyatt; title: Hurrian/Hittite epic / Gary Beckman; title: Persian/Iranian epic / Olga M. Davidson; title: Hebrew epic / Susan Niditch; title: Near Eastern connections / Walter Burkert; title: Homer's Iliad / Mark W. Edwards; title: Homer's Odyssey / Laura M. Slatkin; title: Hesiod / Stephanie Nelson; title: Epic cycle and fragments / Jonathan S. Burgess; title: Apollonius of Rhodes / D. P. Nelis; title: Quintus of Smyrna / Alan James; title: Nonnus / Robert Shorrock; title: Epic and other genres in the ancient Greek world / R. Scott Garner; title: Homer's post-classical legacy / Casey Dué; title: Origins and essence / Joseph Farrell; title: Early republican epic / Sander M. Goldberg; title: Lucretius / Monica R. Gale; title: Virgil's Aeneid / Michael C. J. Putnam; title: Ovid / Carole E. Newlands; title: Lucan / Shadi Bartsch; title: Valerius Flaccus / Andrew Zissos; title: Statius / William J. Dominik; title: Silius Italicus / Raymond D. Marks; title: Claudian / Michael H. Barnes; title: Latin Christian epics of late antiquity / Dennis E. Trout; title: Epic and other genres / R. Jenkyns; title: Virgil's post-classical legacy / Craig Kallendorf.