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The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic

Author: Deborah Beck

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-07-20

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1108639771

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual characters, happenings, and experiences, such as the shepherd and his flocks, a storm at sea, or predators hunting prey. The simile world that complements the epic mythological story is re-imagined afresh in relation to the themes of each epic poem. As Deborah Beck argues in this stimulating book, over time a simile world takes shape across many poems composed over many centuries. This evolving landscape resembles the epic story world of battles, voyages, and heroes that comes into being through relationships among different epic poems. Epic narrative is woven from a warp of the mythological story world and a weft of the simile world. They are partners in creating the fabric of epic poetry.

The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature

Author: Thomas Biggs

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1108498094

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From Homer to the moon, this volume explores the epic journey across space and time in the ancient world.

The Artistry of the Homeric Simile

Author: William C. Scott

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2012-01-15

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1611682290

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An examination of the aesthetic qualities of the Homeric simile

Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad

Author: Jonathan L. Ready

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0192642626

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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing both close readings of individual passages and synthetic reviews of current scholarship. This format allows readers to study the poem in the same manner in which they read it: book by book. Differing from other introductions to the Iliad that comprise chapters on specific topics and themes, the volume offers accessible and actionable discussions of concepts pertinent to each book of the poem. Differing from other introductory volumes that are written by a single author, this volume allows for a polyphony of critical voices and showcases the diversity of approaches to the Iliad. Finally, differing from commentaries keyed to the Greek text, this volume is completely accessible to those who do not read Homeric Greek. These features make the volume an essential resource for those studying the Iliad in translation and in the original Greek, for those in classical studies and in other disciplines, and for teachers and students, both those at the undergraduate level and those at the graduate level.

Patterns of Action in the Aeneid

Author: Roger A. Hornsby

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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This book, an attempt to isolate and examine one aspect of Vergil's poetic technique in the Aeneid, is a result of pondering for several years with undergraduates and graduate students Rome's greatest epic. -- Preface.