Ancient epic : literary and linguistic essays / edited by Mercedes Díaz de Cerio Díez, Concepción Cabrillana and Cecilia Criado.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Díaz de Cerio Díez, Mercedes, editor.

Cabrillana, Concepción, editor.

Criado, Cecilia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Epic literature--History and criticism.

Epic literature.

Comparative literature--Classical and Sanskrit.

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This book adopts a broad and multifaceted approach to that most preeminent of classical literature genres: the Epic. Set in the ancient world, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, the scope of interest here extends, for comparative purposes, to Vedic and Sanskrit poetry, as well as the Medieval epic. This collection of papers by classicists from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, embraces key themes in recent scholarship, such as the character of the hero, defined in terms of the conflict of power central to the epos, the metapoetic function of the bard as a literary reflection

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Revolt vs. Dharma

What is Expedient (τ Συμφ ρ ν) in the Iliad

Socrates' Descensus ad Inferos

The Subordination of Epic to Mystic Poetics

The Theban Fratricidal Wars. The Mythic-Historical Approach of Ovid, Seneca and Lucan

Vates in Fabula

Direct Speech and Lexical Presence of Esse in Virgilian Epic

Homerus Callaicus

Notes on Contributors

Index Locorum

General Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8397-2

OCLC:

924632110