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Epic Interactions: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition Presented to Jasper Griffin by Former Pupils

Epic Interactions: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition Presented to Jasper Griffin by Former Pupils


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This collection of essays, written by former pupils of his, celebrates the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic. The volume surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. Individual chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context; the Augustan poets and the Aeneid; Statius' Thebaid; Old English and Old Irish epic; Renaissance epic: Tasso and Milton; and the Victorians. The aim of the book is to situate writers of epic in their literary and cultural contexts - the essence of the term 'interaction' in the title. The chapters singly offer insights into some of the foundational poems of the European epic tradition and together take a bold, holistic look at that tradition.

Table of Contents:
1: Bruno Currie: Homer and the Early Epic Tradition 2: Simon Pulleyn: Homer's Religion: Philological Perspectives from Indo-European and Semitic 3: Christopher Pelling: Homer and Herodotus 4: Gregory Hutchinson: Hellenistic Epic and Homeric Form 5: Rebecca Armstrong: The Aeneid: Inheritance and Empire 6: Stephen Harrison: The Epic and Monuments: Interactions between Virgil's Aeneid and the Augustan Building Programme 7: Matthew Robinson: Augustan Responses to the Aeneid 8: Matthew Leigh: Statius and the Sublimity of Capaneus 9: Michael Clarke: Achilles, Beowulf, and Cu Chulainn: Continuity and Analogy from Homer to the Medieval North 10: Emily Wilson: Quantum mutatus ab illo: Moments of Change and Recognition in Tasso and Milton 11: Richard Jenkyns: The Idea of Epic in the Nineteenth Century 12: Bruno Currie: Epilogue

About the Author :
M. J. Clarke is Lecturer in Classics, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth. B. G. F. Currie is Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Oriel College, and Lecturer, Oxford University. The late R. O. A. M. Lyne was formerly Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford.

Review :
It should, first of all, be read. Simon Goldhill, Princetion University ...a reference work of enduring value...I will be returning to it over the coming years, and I expect many others will as well. Craig Kallendorf, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 58, No. 234


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199276301
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 456
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199276307
  • Publisher Date: 28 Sep 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition Presented to Jasper Griffin by Former Pupils
  • Width: 145 mm


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