Author: TOOHEY, PETER
Title: Epic Lessons an Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
Description: Routledge, 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0415088976. Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; This book presents a comprehensive survey of the major surviving examples of Greek and Roman didactic poetry: Hesiod's Works and Days, Lucretius' On the Universe, Virgil's Georgics and Ovid's Art of Love among others. Didactic epic's defining characteristic is to instruct. All the above works were aimed to teach students systematically on some concrete topic, while at the same time, their poetic form makes them highly readable pieces of literature. ; 288 pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0415088976 Poetry & Poets Epic Poetry Latin Literature Greek Literature Classical Greek & Roman


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