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Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic by Deborah Beck (2023, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108481795

ISBN-139781108481793

eBay Product ID (ePID)20058370016

Product Key Features

Number of Pages277 Pages

Publication NameStories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

SubjectAncient / General, Linguistics / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, History

AuthorDeborah Beck

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2022-058986

Dewey Edition23/eng/20221228

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal883/.0109

Table Of Content1. Homer Odyssey: heroism, home, and family; 2. Homer Iliad: leadership and loss; 3. Apollonius Argonautica: gender, emotion, and the limits of human skill; 4. Vergil Aeneid: rage and isolation; 5. Ovid Metamorphoses: stories of Eros and Epic.

SynopsisExplores what kind of stories emerge from classical epic when similes are front and center. Combines the interdisciplinary field of embodied cognition with literary analyses of Classical epic similes to show how the distinctive themes of an individual poem emerge from the experiences that similes create., Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual characters, happenings, and experiences, such as the shepherd and his flocks, a storm at sea, or predators hunting prey. The simile world that complements the epic mythological story is re-imagined afresh in relation to the themes of each epic poem. As Deborah Beck argues in this stimulating book, over time a simile world takes shape across many poems composed over many centuries. This evolving landscape resembles the epic story world of battles, voyages, and heroes that comes into being through relationships among different epic poems. Epic narrative is woven from a warp of the mythological story world and a weft of the simile world. They are partners in creating the fabric of epic poetry.

LC Classification NumberPA3022.E6B43 2023