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The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity From Homer to Statius
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The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity From Homer to Statius Hardcover - 1998

by Hershkowitz, Debra

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Oxford/ New York: Clarendon Press/ Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardcover. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; black dj, bw illustration, mylar cover; xiii, 346 pp. "Madness plays a vital role in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness also often occupies a central thematic position in the texts. In this book, Debra Hershkowitz examines from a variety of theoretical angles the representation and poetic function of madness in Greek and Latin epic from Homer through the Flavians, including individual chapters devoted to the Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and Statius' Thebaid. The study also addresses the difficulty of defining madness, and discusses how each epic explores this problem in a different way, finding its own unique way of conceptualizing madness."--Jacket. Contents: Introduction : fragments d'un discours furieux -- Vergil's Aeneid: the Romans and the irrational -- Homeric epic: the Greeks and the rational? -- Ovid's Metamorphoses: shifting boundaries of the divided self -- Lucan's Bellum ciuile: epic in extremis -- Statius' Thebaid: furor without limits.
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  • Title The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity From Homer to Statius
  • Author Hershkowitz, Debra
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.)
  • Pages 358
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarendon Press/ Oxford University Press, Oxford/ New York
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 185830
  • ISBN 9780198152453 / 0198152450
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.32 x 6.4 x 1.06 in (21.13 x 16.26 x 2.69 cm)
  • Reading level 1710
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Mental illness in literature, Epic poetry, Classical - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97044265
  • Dewey Decimal Code 880.09

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