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Author:

Markos, Louis.

Title:

From Achilles to Christ : why Christians should read the pagan classics / Louis Markos.

Publisher:

InterVarsity Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

264 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Christianity and other religions--Greek.
Christianity and other religions--Roman.
Christianity and literature.
Classical literature--Appreciation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.

Contents:

Virgil's Aeneid IV : just war? Homer's Iliad I : a history of conflict -- Homer's Iliad II : civilization versus barbarism -- Homer's Iliad III : a new ethic -- Homer's Iliad IV : from wrath to reconciliation -- Homer's Odyssey I : coming of age -- Homer's Odyssey II : coming home -- Homer's Odyssey III : the journeys of Odysseus -- Aeschylus's Prometheus bound : the birth of tragedy -- Aeschylus's Oresteia : pagan poets and Hebrew prophets -- Sophocles' Oedipus : the human scapegoat -- Sophocles' Antigone and Electra : questions of duty -- Sophocles' Women of Trachis and Philoctetes : the tragedy of character -- Euripides' Electra and Medea : the naïve and the sentimental -- Euripides' Bacchae and Hippolytus : Apollonian versus Dionysiac -- The sacred history of Rome -- The making of a Roman epic -- Virgil's Aeneid I : the fall of Troy -- Virgil's Aeneid II : Aeneas and Dido -- Virgil's Aeneid III : to hell and back -- Virgil's Aeneid IV : just war?

ISBN:

0830825932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780830825936 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)125401506

LCCN:

2007016680

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

POAX626 -- Jessop-Bruner Library (University Park)