The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition

The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition

Author
Denis Feeney
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Year
1991
Page
464
ISBN
019814055X,9780198140559
File Type
pdf
File Size
10.2 MiB

This is the first study devoted to the classical literary tradition as a whole, together with the apparatus of critical scholarship which was part of that tradition. The work of the ancient critics provides some access to the interpretative conventions of the original reading community, whiletheir theories of fiction and genre may also shed light on the problems of the truth-value of epic fiction and the kind of belief that poetry generates. Focusing on the poets themselves, Feeney explores the themes associated with each poet, including the fiction of Apollonius, allegory in the workof Statius, and anthropomorphism in Ovid's work.

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