Ancient Epic (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World)

ISBN: 9781405159470

出版社: Blackwell Publishing

出版年: 2009

页数: 224

定价: USD 94.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts