The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition

Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Critics: beginnings, and a synthesis 2. Apollonius' Argonautica 3. From Greece to Rome: Naevius and Ennius 4. Vergil's Aeneid 5. Ovid's Metamorphoses 6. Epic of History: Lucan's Bellum Civile and Silius' Punica 7. Epic of Myth: Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica and Statius' Thebaid Epilogue Bibliography Index