Epic lessons : an introduction to ancient didactic poetry
1996, 1st edition. London ; New York : Routledge. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #389498
ISBN: 0415088976
Physical description: x, 271 pages. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction -- 1. Who Reads Didactic Epic? -- 2. Word of Mouth: Orality and Didactic Poetry from Hesiod to Empedocles -- 3. The Universe as a Book: Alexandrian Literacy and the Poems of Aratus and Nicander -- 4. Roman Renewal: Cicero and Lucretius -- 5. Politics, Power and Play: Polyphony in Virgil's Georgics and Ovid's Fasti -- 6. Amusements for a Smoky December: Horace on Poetry and Ovid on Eros -- 7. Humans, Nature and God: Epic Lessons in the First Century -- 8. Resisting Instinct: Hunting, Fishing, Science, and God -- 9. Didactic Dinners: Instruction in Narrative Epic and in the Novel -- 10. A Literary History of Leisure? The Didactic Epic. Subjects: Didactic poetry, Classical History and criticism; Epic poetry, Classical History and criticism; Literature and science Greece; Literature and science Rome; Science in literature; Didactic poetry, Classical History and criticism; Epic poetry; Literature and science Greece, Rome.
Price: €145.00