Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Ancient Greek Literature - Literary Criticism, Ancient Roman Literature - Literary Criticism, Ancient Greek Poetry - Literary Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Italian History, Greco-Roman Folklore & Mytholog
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Overview
Peter Toohey guides the reader through the major classical writers of epic poetry, beginning with Homer and concluding with an overview of the development of the late ancient epic and of the interaction between the epic and classical writers of epic poetry.Reading Epic offers an interpretation of the ``meaning,'' not simply a description of the story in these poems, taking into account the intellectual constraints of the era in which they were written. In most cases these readings are provided within the format of interpretative
paraphrase. Toohey's readings provide clear and reliable introductions to the foremost Greek and Latin epics, and to the genre as a whole.
Book Details
Published
December 17, 1992
Publisher
London : Routledge, 1992.
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780415042284