Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-241) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Epic : the genre, its characteristics -- Homer, Iliad -- Homer, Odyssey -- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica -- Beginning epic in Rome -- The Alexandrian miniature epic -- Virgil, Aeneid -- Ovid, Metamorphoses -- Lucan, the Civil war -- Roman epic and the emperor Domitian -- Ends and beginnings : late ancient epic.
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Title
Reading epic.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Epic poetry, Classical-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.