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Ancient Epic

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5947-0
Hardcover
224 pages
April 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic
  • Discusses six major epics across the Homeric and Roman traditions: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes's Agonautica
  • 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

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