Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen /

This first monograph in English on Colluthus situates this late antique author within his cultural context and offers a new appraisal of his hexameter poem The Abduction of Helen , the end-point of the pagan Greek epic tradition, which was composed in the Christianised Egyptian Thebaid. The book eva...

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Main Author: Cadau, Cosetta.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 380.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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Call Number: PA3948.C7 S79 2015

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Colluthus in His Context
  • 2 Colluthus and His Models
  • 3 Colluthus' Visual Epyllion
  • 4 Colluthus' Polyphonic Epyllion
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index.