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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert CowanPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Bristol Phoenix Press ISBN: 9781904675624ISBN 10: 190467562 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 01 January 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1. Before, during and after Virgil: the Roman epic tradition; Chapter 2. After Virgil, because of Virgil: fighting with the master; Chapter 3. The Power and the Gory: the politics of horror; Chapter 4. Rome from Rome: the epic city; Chapter 5. Sex Games: the gender of genre; Chapter 6. Infernal Affairs: heaven, hell, and everything in between; Chapter 7. It's the way I tell 'em: epic narrative; Chapter 8. After After Virgil - the epic tradition marches on; Appendix of concise synopses of the plots of the five epics; Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationRobert Cowan is Fairfax Tutorial Fellow in Latin Literature at Balliol College, Oxford and Lecturer in Classics at the University of Oxford. He has published articles on Silius, Virgil, Juvenal and Horace, and contributed a chapter to Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus. He wrote the introduction to the new edition of O.A.W. Dilke's Statius' Achilleid (BPP, 2005) and is currently completing a book, Indivisible Cities, on the poetics of cities in Silius Italicus. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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