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Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry Peter Toohey 1st edition
Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
Peter Toohey
Didactic epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects - in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was aimed to instruct and entertain.
282 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 14, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415088978 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 282 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 476 g |
| Language | English |
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