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The Theban epics
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ISBN: 9780674417243 0674417240 Year: 2014 Volume: 69 Publisher: Washington, D.C. The Center for Hellenic Studies

The Fall of Troy
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ISBN: 0674990226 0434990191 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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In The Fall of Troy, Quintus Smyrnaeus (Fourth century CE?) seeks to continue in Homer's style the tale of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus's fourteen-book epic poem includes the death of Achilles and the making of the Wooden Horse. It ends with the great storm that by the wrath of heaven shattered the departing Achaean fleet.


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The Iliad
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ISBN: 9780199326105 9780199326112 0199326118 019932610X 9780199925865 9780199925872 0199925860 9780199925865 0199925879 9780199925872 1299821626 9781299821620 0199326126 0199348502 0191988855 9780191988851 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York

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Homer's Iliad is one of the foundational texts of Western Civilization. The timelessness of its story, of men battling fate amidst the horrors of war, still stirs the imaginations of readers year after year. What is offered here is the first translation by someone who is both an eminent scholar and published poet. Based on his thorough familiarity with Homeric language, Powell's free verse translation preserves the clarity and simplicity of the original, while recreating the original feel and sound of the oral-formulaic style. By avoiding the stylistic formality of earlier translations, and th

Greek epic fragments : From the seventh to the fifth centuries BC
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ISBN: 0674996054 9780674996052 Year: 2014 Volume: 497 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Heroic epic of the eighth to the fifth century BCE includes poems about Hercules and Theseus, as well as the Theban Cycle and the Trojan Cycle. Genealogical epic of that archaic era includes poems that create prehistories for Corinth and Samos. These works are an important source of mythological record.


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Argonautica
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ISBN: 9780674996304 0674996305 Year: 2014 Volume: 1 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, composed in the third century BCE, is an epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. It greatly influenced Roman authors such as Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid, and was imitated by Valerius Flaccus.

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