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The madness of epic : reading insanity from Homer to Statius /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hershkowitz, Debra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:
Epic poetry, Classical > History and criticism.
Statius, P. Papinius > (Publius Papinius) > Characters > Mentally ill.
Literature and mental illness > Greece.
Literature and mental illness > Rome.
Homer > Characters > Mentally ill.
Mental illness in literature.
Mentally ill in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : fragments d'un discours furieux
  • Vergil's Aeneid: the Romans and the irrational
  • Homeric epic: the Greeks and the rational?
  • Ovid's Metamorphoses: shifting boundaries of the divided self
  • Lucan's Bellum ciuile: epic in extremis
  • Statius' Thebaid: furor without limits.