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Drawing on a wealth of ancient and modern sources, Charles Rowan Beye offers enlightening interpretations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and of two other epic masterpieces--Apollonius's Argonautica and Virgil's Aeneid
"An authoritative book about classical epic, with a fine-tuned sense for literature as literature, written by a scholar who really knows how to write."--Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
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- PublisherCornell University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 080149964X
- ISBN 13 9780801499647
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages280
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Condition: Gut. XIII, 280 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leichte Verschmutzung auf dem Cover, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / slight soiling on the cover, otherwise impeccable condition - Drawing on a wealth of ancient and modern sources, Charles Rowan Beye offers masterly interpretations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and of two other great epics Apollonius's Argonautica and Virgil's Aeneid. Ancient Epic Poetry is a superb introduction to the poems and their poets, their audiences, and their place in the epic tradition. Beye has totally rewritten his much-admired book, first published three decades ago, The "Iliad," the "Odyssey," and the Epic Tradition, adding a chapter on the Argonautica and updating his list of suggested readings. -- Focusing on the implications of oral theory, Beye speculates on how audiences of the archaic age may have interpreted the Iliad and the Odyssey. He highlights the interpretive problems created by reading poems that were meant to be performed, and he provides today's reader the information and literary background that ancient audiences would probably have possessed. Beye next describes the third-century Alexandrian Greek world in which Apollonius created for readersnot listeners the Argonautica, an exercise in wit that subverts the heroic ethos and distorts the poem's archaic epic models. He then shows how profoundly the Argonautica influenced Virgil's composition of the Aeneid as a Roman epic intended to represent for its culture what the Homeric poems represented for theirs. ISBN 9780801499647 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450 15,9 x 1,9 x 23,5 cm, Broschiert / Paperback. Seller Inventory # 1178738
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Ancient Epic Poetry. Homer, Apollonius, Virgil. With a Chapter on the Gilgamesh Poems.
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Bolchazy-Carducci, Wauconda, 2006. X,313p. Paperback. Nice copy. Like new. Beyeâs critically acclaimed interpretive introduction to the epic poetry and poets of ancient Greece and Rome is here reprinted in an expanded second edition with a new preface, new chapter on Gilgamesh, and updated appendix of further reading. Beye is able to offer historical and literary background quickly and painlessly to set the stage for his fresh and surprising interpretations. (Publisher's information). Seller Inventory # 923
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