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9781405188388

A Companion to Ancient Epic

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405188388

  • ISBN10:

    1405188383

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-11-03
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman epic. It offers a multi-disciplinary discussion of both longstanding ideas and newer perspectives. A Companion to the Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic traditions. Considers the interrelation between these different traditions. Provides a balanced overview of longstanding ideas and newer perspectives in the study of epic. Shows how scholarship over the last forty years has transformed the ways that we conceive of and understand the genre Covers recently introduced topics, such as the role of women, the history of reception, and comparison with living analogues from oral tradition. The editor and contributors are leading scholars in the field. Includes a detailed index of poems, poets, technical terms, and important figures and events.

Author Biography

John Miles Foley is the Curators’ and Byler Professor of Classical Studies and English at the University of Missouri. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition. He is the author of The Theory of Oral Composition (1988), The Singer of Tales in Performance (1995), Homer’s Traditional Art (1999), and How to Read an Oral Poem (2002).

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works
Abbreviations of Modern Reference Works
Map
Introduction
Issues and Perspectives
Epic as Genre
The Indo-European Context
Epic and Myth
Performance
Epic and History
The Epic Hero
The Gods in Epic, or the Divine Economy
Women in Ancient Epic
Archaeological Contexts
The Physical Media: Tablet, Scroll, Codex
Ancient Reception
Translating Ancient Epic
Analogues: Modern Oral Epics
Near Eastern Epic
Comparative Observations on the Near Eastern Epic Traditions
Mesopotamian Epic
Epic in Ugaritic Literature
Hitte and Hurrian Epic
Persian/Iranian Epic
Hebrew Epic
Ancient Greek Epic
Near Eastern Connections
Homer's Iliad
Homer's Odyssey
Hesiod
Epic Cycle and Fragments
Apollonius of Rhodes
Quintus of Smyrna
Nonnus
Epic and Other Genres in the Ancient Greek World
Homer's Post-classical Legacy
Roman Epic
The Origins and Essence of Roman Epic
Early Republican Epic
Lucretius
Virgil's Aeneid
Ovid
Lucan
Valerius Flaccus
Statius
Silius Italicus
Claudian
Latin Christian Epics of Late Antiquity
Epic and Other Genres in the Roman World
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