Ancient Epic Poetry

By Charles Rowan Beye

Book Overview

Drawing on a wealth of ancient and modern sources, Charles Rowan Beye offers enlightening interpretations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and of two other epic masterpieces--Apollonius's Argonautica and Virgil's Aeneid ?An authoritative book about classical epic, with a fine-tuned sense for literature as literature, written by a scholar who really knows how to write.'--Gregory Nagy, Harvard University

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080149964X
• ISBN13: 9780801499647
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"