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How did everything around us-the air, the land, the sea, and the stars-originate? What is the source of order, form, and structure characterizing all material things? These are …

Edward Keble Chatterton (1878-1944) was a sailor and prolific writer who is best known for non-fiction works. His voyages across the English Channel, to the Netherlands, around the …

The “Events after Homer”, described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey …

An extensive introduction provides basic information about Russian epics, their historical background, their poetics, the history of their collection, their performance context, …

Sometimes, you've just got to let your monkey out.In My Epic Life, the hilarious conclusion to the Alexander Adventures trilogy, Alexander finds the key to living his most epic …

By demonstrating the importance of horrific motifs in Greek and Roman epic, this book challenges existing conceptions of what an epic poem is and of what it means to engage with …