The madness of epic : reading insanity from Homer to Statius /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Series: | Oxford classical monographs.
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Table of 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.