King, Katherine Callen
Ancient Epic
Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction 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 comprehensive historical context
- Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts
Keywords: Epic, Ancient Literature, Classics, Ancient History, Classic Literature, Ovid, Homer, Iliad, Odyssey, Vergil, Aeneid, Ovid, Metamorphoses, Apollonius of Rhodes, Agonautica, Homeric Epic, Roman Epic
- Author(s)
- King, Katherine Callen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 224 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444308556