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The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius Book

The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius
The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius, Madness features in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness often plays an important thematic role. This book examines the representation and poetic function of madness in epic poetry (including the work of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid),, The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius has a rating of 4 stars
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The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius, Madness features in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness often plays an important thematic role. This book examines the representation and poetic function of madness in epic poetry (including the work of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid),, The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius
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  • The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius
  • Written by author Debra Hershkowitz
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, August 1998
  • Madness features in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness often plays an important thematic role. This book examines the representation and poetic function of madness in epic poetry (including the work of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid),
  • Madness features in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness often plays an important thematic role. This book examines the representation and poetic function of madness in epic poetry (including the work of Homer, Virgil, and Ov
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1Introduction: Fragments d'un Discours Furieux1
2Vergil's Aeneid: The Romans and the Irrational68
3Homeric Epic: The Greeks and the Rational?125
4Ovid's Metamorphoses: Shifting Boundaries of the Divided Self161
5Lucan's Bellum Ciuile: Epic In Extremis197
6Statius' Thebaid: Furor Without Limits247
Epilogue302
References305
Index of Passages333
General Index343


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