Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil

Drawing on a wealth of ancient and modern sources, Charles Rowan Beye offers enlightening interpretations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and of two other epic masterpieces--Apollonius's Argonautica and Virgil's Aeneid "An authoritative book about classical epic, with a fine-tuned sense for literature as literature, written by a scholar who really knows how to write."--Gregory Nagy, Harvard University