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Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry Book

Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
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Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry, 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, Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
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  • Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
  • Written by author Peter Toohey
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, 5/22/2013
  • 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
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Introduction
1 Who Reads Didactic Epic? 1
2 Word of Mouth: Orality and Didactic Poetry from Hesiod to Empedocles 20
3 The Universe as a Book: Hellenistic Literacy and the Poems of Aratus and Nicander 49
4 Roman Renewal: Cicero and Lucretius 78
5 Politics, Power, and Play: Polyphony in Virgil's Georgics and Ovid's Fasti 109
6 Amusements for a Smoky December: Horace on Poetry and Ovid on Eros 146
7 Humans, Nature, and God: Epic Lessons in the First Century 175
8 Resisting Instinct: Hunting, Fishing, Science, and God 194
9 Didactic Dinners: Instruction in Narrative Epic and in the Novel 213
10 A Literary History of Leisure? The Didactic Epic 238
Bibliography of works cited 252
Index 265


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