This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic…
As opposed to feeble imitations of the Aeneid, the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus are viewed as dynamic works that use the Virgilian model creatively to reflect the moral and political issues of their own day. -- Amazon.com.
Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven essays explore the ways in which the Illiad and the Odyssey have been read from…
Argonautica
by Hunter, R. L., (Richard L.), Apollonius,, Rhodius
fromCambridge Greek and Latin classics
