Peter Toohey

Broschiertes Buch

Epic Lessons

An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

Beschreibung

Didactic epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects - in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was aimed to instruct and entertain.

Autor

Peter Toohey is Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, New South Wales. He is the author of Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives (1992), and has edited, with Mark Golden Reconstructing the Past: Historicism, Periodisation and the Ancient World (1996).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780415862240
• ISBN-10: 0415862248
• Artikelnr.: 37318065