- Bib ID:
- 2861745
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Toohey, Peter, 1951-
- Description:
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- New York : Routledge, 1996
- x, 271 pages ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0415088976
- Full contents:
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- 1. Who Reads Didactic Epic?
- 2. Word of Mouth: Orality and Didactic Poetry from Hesiod to Empedocles
- 3. The Universe as a Book: Hellenistic Literacy and the Poems of Aratus and Nicander
- 4. Roman Renewal: Cicero and Lucretius
- 5. Politics, Power, and Play: Polyphony in Virgil's Georgics and Ovid's Fasti
- 6. Amusements for a Smoky December: Horace on Poetry and Ovid on Eros
- 7. Humans, Nature, and God: Epic Lessons in the First Century
- 8. Resisting Instinct: Hunting, Fishing, Science, and God
- 9. Didactic Dinners: Instruction in Narrative Epic and in the Novel
- 10. A Literary History of Leisure? The Didactic Epic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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