The madness of epic
Subtitle: reading insanity from Homer to Statius
By: Debra Hershkowitz.
Series: Oxford classical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Statius, P. Papinius -- Characters -- Mentally ill.; Homer -- Characters -- Mentally ill.; Epic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism.; Literature and mental illness -- Greece.; Literature and mental illness -- Rome.; Mental illness in literature.; Mentally ill in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-332) and indexes.