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The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition

The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition

Feeney, D. C.

Paperback

Series: Clarendon Paperbacks

PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 0198149387
ISBN13: 9780198149385
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Jun 10 1993
Pages: 462
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is the first study devoted to the classical literary tradition as a whole, together with the apparatus of critical scholarship which was part of that tradition. The work of the ancient critics provides some access to the interpretative conventions of the original reading community, while their theories of fiction and genre may also shed light on the problems of the truth-value of epic fiction and the kind of belief that poetry generates. Focusing on the poets themselves, Feeney explores the themes associated with each poet, including the fiction of Apollonius, allegory in the work of Statius, and anthropomorphism in Ovid's work.

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