Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

By Peter Toohey

Book Overview

Didactic epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects - in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was aimed to instruct and entertain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415862248
• ISBN13: 9780415862240
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"