Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry by Toohey, Peter

Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415088978)

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Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry by Toohey, Peter

Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

$190.00
Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry by Toohey, Peter

Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain.

Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic

'Toohey's erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.' - JACT Review

Author: Peter Toohey
ISBN-10: 0415088976
ISBN-13: 9780415088978
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/14/1996
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.76w x 1.07d
By Peter Toohey
By Peter Toohey
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Peter Toohey is Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, New South Wales. He is the author of Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives (1992), and has edited, with Mark Golden Reconstructing the Past: Historicism, Periodisation and the Ancient World (1996).

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