From Achilles to Christ
Subtitle: why Christians should read the pagan classics
By: Louis Markos.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Downers Grove, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780830825936
Subjects: Christianity and other religions -- Greek; Christianity and other religions -- Roman; Christianity and literature; Classical literature -- Appreciation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hesiod's Theogony : in the beginning; title: Homer's Iliad I : a history of conflict; title: Homer's Iliad II : civilization versus barbarism; title: Homer's Iliad III : a new ethic; title: Homer's Iliad IV : from wrath to reconciliation; title: Homer's Odyssey I : coming of age; title: Homer's Odyssey II : coming home; title: Homer's Odyssey III : the journeys of Odysseus; title: Aeschylus's Prometheus bound : the birth of tragedy; title: Aeschylus's Oresteia : pagan poets and Hebrew prophets; title: Sophocles' Oedipus : the human scapegoat; title: Sophocles' Antigone and Electra : questions of duty; title: Sophocles' Women of Trachis and Philoctetes : the tragedy of character; title: Euripides' Electra and Medea : the naive and the sentimental; title: Euripides' Bacchae and Hippolytus : Apollonian versus Dionysiac; title: The sacred history of Rome; title: The making of a Roman epic; title: Virgil's Aeneid I : the fall of Troy; title: Virgil's Aeneid II : Aeneas and Dido; title: Virgil's Aeneid III : to hell and back; title: Virgil's Aeneid IV : just war?