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基本説明
This collection of essays celebrating the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic, surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era.
Full Description
This collection of essays, written by former pupils of his, celebrates the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic. The volume surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. Individual chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context; the Augustan poets and the Aeneid; Statius' Thebaid; Old English and Old Irish epic; Renaissance epic: Tasso and Milton; and the Victorians. The aim of the book is to situate writers of epic in their literary and cultural contexts - the essence of the term 'interaction' in the title. The chapters singly offer insights into some of the foundational poems of the European epic tradition and together take a bold, holistic look at that tradition.
Contents
1. Homer and the Early Epic Tradition ; 2. Homer's Religion: Philological Perspectives from Indo-European and Semitic ; 3. Homer and Herodotus ; 4. Hellenistic Epic and Homeric Form ; 5. The Aeneid: Inheritance and Empire ; 6. The Epic and Monuments: Interactions between Virgil's Aeneid and the Augustan Building Programme ; 7. Augustan Responses to the Aeneid ; 8. Statius and the Sublimity of Capaneus ; 9. Achilles, Beowulf, and Cu Chulainn: Continuity and Analogy from Homer to the Medieval North ; 10. Quantum mutatus ab illo: Moments of Change and Recognition in Tasso and Milton ; 11. The Idea of Epic in the Nineteenth Century ; 12. Epilogue
