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Author Toohey, Peter, 1951-

Title Reading epic : an introduction to the ancient narratives / Peter Toohey.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-241) and index.
Contents Epic : the genre, its characteristics -- Homer, Iliad -- Homer, Odyssey -- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica -- Beginning epic in Rome -- The Alexandrian miniature epic -- Virgil, Aeneid -- Ovid, Metamorphoses -- Lucan, the Civil war -- Roman epic and the emperor Domitian -- Ends and beginnings : late ancient epic.
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Subject Epic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Epic poetry, Classical.
Epic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism.
History, Ancient, in literature.
History, Ancient, in literature.
Literature and history -- Greece.
Literature and history.
Greece.
Literature and history -- Rome.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.
Narration (Rhetoric)
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Indexed Term Epic poetry
Greek poetry
Latin poetry
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Toohey, Peter, 1951- Reading epic. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992 (DLC) 92007032
ISBN 9780203169124
0203169123
9780415042277
0415042275
9780415042284 (paperback)
0415042283 (paperback)
0203169123
0415042275
0415042283 (paperback)