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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784710603321

Titolo

Epic interactions [[electronic resource] ] : 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-153478-1

1-4356-0726-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkeMichael (Michael J.)

CurrieBruno

LyneR. O. A. M

Disciplina

809.1/32

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Classical - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-412) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays celebrating the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic, surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. - ;This collection of essays, written by former pupils of his, celebrates the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic. The volume surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. Individual



chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Helle