Epic interactions : perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the epic tradition : presented to Jasper Griffin by former pupils / edited by M.J. Clarke, B.G.F. Currie, and R.O.A.M. Lyne.
| Other author | Clarke, Michael (Michael J.) |
| Other author | Currie, Bruno. |
| Other author | Lyne, R. O. A. M. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
| Description | xiii, 441 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Homer and the early epic tradition / Bruno Currie -- Homer's religion : philological perspectives from Indo-European and Semitic / Simon Pulleyn -- Homer and Herodotus / Christopher Pelling -- Hellenistic epic and Homeric form / Gregory Hutchinson -- The Aeneid : inheritance and empire / Rebecca Armstrong -- The epic and the monuments : interactions between Virgil's Aeneid and the Augustan building programme / Stephen Harrison -- Augustan responses to the Aeneid / Matthew Robinson -- Statius and the sublimity of Capaneus / Matthew Leigh -- Achilles, Byrhtnoth, and Cú Chulainn : continuity and analogy from Homer to the medieval north / Michael Clarke -- Quantum Mutatus ab Illo : moments of change and recognition in Tasso and Milton / Emily Wilson. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-412) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2006007427 |
| ISBN | 0199276307 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780199276301 (alk. paper) |