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Peter Toohey - Epic Lessons, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

Epic Lessons

An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

Av Peter Toohey

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Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain.Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic'Toohey's erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.' - JACT Review
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1996-11-14
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 680 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 282
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780415088978
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Peter Toohey is Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, New South Wales. He is the author of Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives (1992), and has edited, with Mark Golden Reconstructing the Past: Historicism, Periodisation and the Ancient World (1996).

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'This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major surviving examples of Greek and Roman didactic poetry ... I also enjoyed the opportunity to delve into Nicander and other less frequently read writers and found that they provided an illuminating context for more familiar works.' I Hilary Walters, Loughborough Grammar School

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