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| Preface | vi | |
| Abbreviations | viii | |
| 1. | The Epic Cycle | 1 |
| Notes | 11 | |
| 2. | The Titanomachy | 13 |
| 3. | The Oedipodeia | 19 |
| 4. | The Thebais | 22 |
| 5. | The Epigoni | 29 |
| 6. | The Cypria | 32 |
| 7. | The Aethiopis | 51 |
| 8. | The Little Iliad | 60 |
| 9. | The Sack of Troy | 71 |
| 10. | The Returns Home | 77 |
| 11. | The Telegony | 84 |
| Index of Mythological Names | 92 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Brian Hewes
reviewed Greek Epic Cycle on January 19, 2020
Greek Epic Cycle
Behold yon mountain's hoary height
Made higher with new mounds of snow:
Again behold the winter's weight
Oppress the labouring woods below...
- Horace, Ode I, 9: Dryden translation.
Old age is No Fun!
So seems to say the aging Roman master Horace in this excerpt. And I couldn't agree more!
As well as being a time of myriad aches and pains and illnesses, it is a time when efforts at calm reflection are upset by "undisciplined squadrons of emotion" (Eliot)
For it is a time when your "Heart rises to the surface" (Elizabeth Hay).
Yikes! Is there a CURE for these Oldtimer's Blues?
Yes! says Horace: just AC-CENT-U-ATE the Positive... for there ARE good times to be had in the Wintertime of Life!
Listen to the happy turn the wintry Ode 9 takes next:
With well-heaped logs dissolve the cold
And feed the genial hearth with fires,
Produce the wine that makes us bold,
And sprightly wit and love inspires.
And throughout these mature poems, Horace stresses the Golden Mean - neither getting out of hand with levity or getting wrapped up in your sorrows.
This is good advice indeed for me and all my friends "of a certain age."
Old age is not for sissies - and neither is it a time to "measure our life in coffee spoons."
Don't dwell on what you've lost -
Be Happy for what you HAVE -
Right HERE & NOW.
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Add Greek Epic Cycle, In the wake of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics that covered other parts of the Trojan War story or different areas of Greek mythology. Collectively these poems came to be known by Hellenistic scholars , Greek Epic Cycle to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Greek Epic Cycle, In the wake of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics that covered other parts of the Trojan War story or different areas of Greek mythology. Collectively these poems came to be known by Hellenistic scholars , Greek Epic Cycle to your collection on WonderClub |
