Epic interactions
Subtitle: perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the epic tradition : presented to Jasper Griffin by former pupils
By: edited by M.J. Clarke, B.G.F. Currie, and R.O.A.M. Lyne
Contributors: Clarke, Michael; Currie, Bruno; Lyne, R. O. A. M
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780199276301
Subjects: Homer -- Criticism and interpretation; Homer -- Influence; Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation; Griffin, Jasper; Epic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-412) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Homer and the early epic tradition / Bruno Currie; title: Homer's religion : philological perspectives from Indo-European and Semitic / Simon Pulleyn; title: Homer and Herodotus / Christopher Pelling; title: Hellenistic epic and Homeric form / Gregory Hutchinson; title: The Aeneid : inheritance and empire / Rebecca Armstrong; title: The epic and the monuments : interactions between Virgil's Aeneid and the Augustan building programme / Stephen Harrison; title: Augustan responses to the Aeneid / Matthew Robinson; title: Statius and the sublimity of Capaneus / Matthew Leigh; title: Achilles, Byrhtnoth, and Cú Chulainn : continuity and analogy from Homer to the medieval north / Michael Clarke; title: Quantum Mutatus ab Illo : moments of change and recognition in Tasso and Milton / Emily Wilson