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Ancient EpicAncient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their

Includes extensive quotations in English

Part 1 passages are straight translation exercises on the model of the A-Level Paper 1

Neil Packer’s striking imagination

helpful examples

Attention is paid to Cicero’s use of the devices and techniques of rhetoric

and one of its finest advocates

It offers much help with the language of the text (which has been prepared for ease of reading)

but which pays particular attention to the genre of the victory ode and its conventions

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the collection shows that the step Alexander made

The Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review

The introduction discusses the main problems of interpretation and gives an account of its reception from antiquity to the present day