Ancient Epic
Book Details
Author(s)Katherine Callen King
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1405159472
ISBN-139781405159470
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank3,749,747
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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

