Ancient Epic
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Ancient epics remain a fount of inspiration for poets, dramatists, and musicians not only because they tell good stories in an aesthetically beautiful way, but also because they speak to contemporary hearts and minds still wrestling with timeless issues of human limitation, passion, violence, and uses and abuses of power.
Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessibleintroduction 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 comprehensivehistorical context
Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings,and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadiancounterparts
Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic
Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensivehistorical context
Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings,and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadiancounterparts
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