Publius Papinius Statius was born in Neapolis (Naples) in about AD 50. The twelve books of his magnum opus, The Thebaid, were published in ca. 92. The Achilleid was begun in ca. 95 and left unfinished at his death in ca. 96. The present work, In three volumes, offers a revised t…
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Singing the past: Turkic and medieval heroic poetry
by Reichl, Karl
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Singing the past: Turkic and medieval heroic poetry
by Reichl, Karl
fromMyth and poetics
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Type: Book
Singing the past: Turkic and medieval heroic poetry
by Reichl, Karl
fromMyth and poetics
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Type: Book
Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Karakalpak oral traditions. Through a close analysis of these Turkic works, he shows that they are typologically similar …
Singing the past: Turkic and medieval heroic poetry
by Reichl, Karl
fromMyth and poetics
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Type: Book
"Oral Epic Poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Karakalpak oral traditions. Through a close analysis of these Turkic works, he shows that they are typologically similar…
The epic of Gilgamesh
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This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of professor G.S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which covers the first four Books of Iliad. It consists of four introductory chapters,…
This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of professor G.S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which covers the first four Books of Iliad. It consists of four introductory chapters,…
Every great civilization from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry fr…