Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond: Knowledge, Power, Tradition

The present volume approaches didactic poetry from different perspectives: the diachronic, mapping the development of didactic through changing social and political landscapes (from Homer and Hesiod to Neo-Latin didactic); and the comparative, setting the Graeco-Roman tradition against a wider backdrop (including ancient near-eastern

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910589799
• ISBN13: 9781910589793
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"