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