Table of Contents

1: Bruno Currie: Homer and the Early Epic Tradition
2: Simon Pulleyn: Homer's Religion: Philological Perspectives from Indo-European and Semitic
3: Christopher Pelling: Homer and Herodotus
4: Gregory Hutchinson: Hellenistic Epic and Homeric Form
5: Rebecca Armstrong: The Aeneid: Inheritance and Empire
6: Stephen Harrison: The Epic and Monuments: Interactions between Virgil's Aeneid and the Augustan Building Programme
7: Matthew Robinson: Augustan Responses to the Aeneid
8: Matthew Leigh: Statius and the Sublimity of Capaneus
9: Michael Clarke: Achilles, Beowulf, and Cu Chulainn: Continuity and Analogy from Homer to the Medieval North
10: Emily Wilson: Quantum mutatus ab illo: Moments of Change and Recognition in Tasso and Milton
11: Richard Jenkyns: The Idea of Epic in the Nineteenth Century
12: Bruno Currie: Epilogue

About the Author

M. J. Clarke is Lecturer in Classics, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth. B. G. F. Currie is Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Oriel College, and Lecturer, Oxford University. The late R. O. A. M. Lyne was formerly Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford.

Reviews

It should, first of all, be read. Simon Goldhill, Princetion University ...a reference work of enduring value...I will be returning to it over the coming years, and I expect many others will as well. Craig Kallendorf, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 58, No. 234