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Ancient Epic

Katherine Callen King

ISBN: 978-1-118-29345-4

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224 pages

February 2012, Wiley-Blackwell

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Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica.

Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic
Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context
Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts