Malcolm Davies

'The Aethiopis'

Bog | Engelsk

It may seem odd to devote an entire book, however short, to a lost epic of which hardly any fragments (as normally defined) survive. The existence of a late prose summary of the epics contents hardly dispels that oddness. One (rather long) word may supply

'The Greek Epic Cycle'

Bog | Engelsk

In the wake of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey", poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics which covered other parts of the Trojan War story or different areas of Greek mythology. Quotations from them and other testim