A Companion to Ancient Epic

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John Miles Foley
John Wiley & Sons, 3 nov. 2008 - 704 pages
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
 

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Table des matières

Epic and Myth
31
Performance
45
The Epic Hero
71
Women in Ancient Epic
105
Archaeological Contexts
119
Tablet Scroll Codex
142
Ancient Reception
164
Translating Ancient Epic
174
Quintus of Smyrna
364
Nonnus
374
Epic and Other Genres in the Ancient Greek World
386
Homers Postclassical Legacy
397
The Origins and Essence of Roman Epic
417
Early Republican Epic
429
Lucretius
440
Virgils Aeneid
452

Modern Oral Epics
196
Comparative Observations on the Near Eastern Epic Traditions
215
Mesopotamian Epic
233
Epic in Ugaritic Literature
246
Hittite and Hurrian Epic
255
PersianIranian Epic
264
The Challenge of Israelite Epic
277
Near Eastern Connections
291
Homers Iliad
302
Homers Odyssey
315
Hesiod
330
Apollonius of Rhodes
353
Ovid
476
Lucan
492
Valerius Flaccus
503
Statius
514
Silius Italicus
528
Claudian
538
Latin Christian Epics of Late Antiquity
550
Epic and Other Genres in the Roman World
562
Virgils Postclassical Legacy
574
Bibliography
589
Index
651
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À propos de l'auteur (2008)

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).

Informations bibliographiques

TitreA Companion to Ancient Epic
Volume 72 de Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
RédacteurJohn Miles Foley
Éditionillustrée, réimprimée
ÉditeurJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN1405188383, 9781405188388
Longueur704 pages
  
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