The Alexandra of Lycophron: A Literary Study

Author:   Charles McNelis (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, Georgetown University) ,  Alexander Sens (Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Chair of Hellenic Studies, Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Chair of Hellenic Studies, Georgetown University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199601899


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   21 April 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Charles McNelis (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, Georgetown University) ,  Alexander Sens (Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Chair of Hellenic Studies, Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Chair of Hellenic Studies, Georgetown University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.436kg
ISBN:  

9780199601899


ISBN 10:   0199601895
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   21 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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"1: Introduction 2: The Imagery of the Alexandra 3: ""Like a Winged Runner"": The Prologue and Epilogue of the Alexandra 4: The Structure of Cassandra's Prophecy 5: The Best of the Achaeans Redefined: Cassandra's Achilles 6: The Labors of Odysseus 7: Other Greek Heroes: Philoctetes, Diomedes, and Agamemnon 8: Tρώ*e*s*sιν ἀ*nά*x*e*i: Death and the Restoration Trojan Glory 9: The Divine Plan of the Alexandra: Justice, Peripateia, and Tragedy"

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Charles McNelis is an Associate Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. He has written articles on Greek and Latin literature, and is the author of Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2007). Alexander Sens is Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Chair of Classics at Georgetown University. He specializes in the poetry of the late Classical and Hellenistic periods, and is the author of a series of editions of and commentaries on Greek poems, including most recently Asclepiades of Samos: Epigrams and Fragments (Oxford, 2011).

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