A Companion to Ancient Epic Book

	Introduction	1
1	Epic as genre	9
2	The Indo-European context	20
3	Epic and myth	31
4	Performance	45
5	Epic and history	55
6	The epic hero	71
7	The gods in epic, or the divine economy	90
8	Women in ancient epic	105
9	Archaeological contexts	119
10	The physical media : tablet, scroll, codex	142
11	Ancient reception	164
12	Translating ancient epic	174
13	Analogues : modern oral epics	196
14	Comparative observations on the Near Eastern epic traditions	215
15	Mesopotamian epic	233
16	Epic in Ugaritic literature	246
17	Hittite and Hurrian epic	255
18	Persian/Iranian epic	264
19	The challenge of Israelite epic	277
20	Near Eastern connections	291
21	Homer's Iliad	302
22	Homer's Odyssey	315
23	Hesiod	330
24	The epic cycle and fragments	344
25	Apollonius of Rhodes	353
26	Quintus of Smyrna	364
27	Nonnus	374
28	Epic and other genres in the ancient Greek world	386
29	Homer's post-classical legacy	397
30	The origins and essence of Roman epic	417
31	Early republican epic	429
32	Lucretius	440
33	Virgil's Aeneid	452
34	Ovid	476
35	Lucan	492
36	Valerius Flaccus	503
37	Statius	514
38	Silius Italicus	528
39	Claudian	538
40	Latin Christian epics of late antiquity	550
41	Epic and other genres in the Roman world	562
42	Virgil's post-classical legacy	574