Ancient epic
By: Katherine Callen King.
Series: Blackwell introductions to the classical world
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781405159470; 9781405159487
Subjects: Epic poetry -- History and criticism; Poetry, Ancient -- History and criticism; Heroes in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The epic of Gilgamesh; title: The context of homeric epic; title: The Iliad; title: The Odyssey; title: The Argonautika of Apollonios of Rhodes; title: The context of Roman epic; title: The Aeneid of Virgil; title: The metamorphoses of Ovid.