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Content: Lecture 1. The epic -- Lecture 2. Homer and the Iliad -- Lecture 3. Homer and the Iliad (continued) -- Lecture 4. Homer and the Odyssey -- Lecture 5. The Aeneid -- Lecture 6. The Aeneid (continued) -- Lecture 7. Beowulf -- Lecture 8. Dante and the Divine Comedy -- Lecture 9. The Divine Comedy: Inferno -- Lecture 10. The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio -- Lecture 11. The Divine Comedy: Paradiso -- Lecture 12. The Renaissance epic and the Faerie Queene: book 1 -- Lecture 13. Paradise Lost -- Lecture 14. Paradise Lost and later. Abstract: From the very outset in the West, the epic has been a highly regarded literary genre. Major epics had the most profound and most enduring cultural influence. This course revisits major epics examing the stories and the characters, while considering the styles represented ad the societies in which the epics were constructed. The course examines the epic as genre and as a reflection of ancient history

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Author

Timothy Baker Shutt

Publisher

Recorded Books, Inc.

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781402581632

Category

nonfiction