Ancient Epic

Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homers Iliad and Odyssey, Vergils Aeneid, Ovids Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts