About this title: Roman epic lays firm claim to being western civilisation's prime literary form. Roman Epic draws together 14 critically and methodologically distinct essays, focusing on particular epicists, their reaction to, influence on, and rewriting of each other. The book examines the formation and transformation of Roman epic from its beginnings in the third century BC Saturnian poets Livius and Naevius, to the Renaissance Latin epic of Petrarch and Vida. What results is the revelation of Roman epic not only as Rome's highest poetic genre but as a self-consciously intertextual, primarily political ...
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Binding: SOFTCOVER
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780415143578ISBN:0415143578
Description: Good. 21 pages of text have markings, and there are some checkmarks in the margins of the Bibliography. Pages smell a bit like cigarette smoke. Edges show some wear. Spine has light reading creases, but binding is solid. Very usable. 336 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 9/20/1996
ISBN-13:9780415143578ISBN:0415143578
Description: New. First paperback edition 1996 of brand new mint condition softcover. All clean crisp text pages with nice tight binding. Free gift-wrapping. Daily shipping. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780415042307ISBN:0415042305
Description: Fine with no dust jacket. 0415042305. 2 x 10 x 8 Inches; 340 pages; Roman epic lays firm claim to being Western civilization's prime literary form. Roman Epic draws together 14 critically and methodologically distinct essays, focusing on particular epicists, their reaction to, influence on, and rewriting of each other. The book examines the formation and transformation of Roman epic from its beginnings in the third century B. C. Saturnian poets Livius and Naevius to the Renaissance Latin epic ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780415042307ISBN:0415042305
Description: Good. First Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing, unclipped dustcover, else Ex College library usual library markings; rest All in good condition; read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Routledge, London
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780415143578ISBN:0415143578
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xii, 336 pp. Cover has some wear along edges and a small crease in each outer corner, also has some discolouration. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge, London and New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780415042307ISBN:0415042305
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. Octavo; 336pp indexed: Hardcover 1st Ed in dust jacket AS NEW, no remainder or other markings, trace jacket edge wear, o/w pristine unbumped & as new in like jacket (now in mylar) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1996-09-20
ISBN-13:9780415143578ISBN:0415143578
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