The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western LiteratureOxford University Press, 1967 - 763 Seiten This landmark book explores the ways in which the Greco-Roman tradition has shaped modern European and American literature. |
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... EPIC . The four chief types of epic poetry in the Renaissance Direct imitations of classical epic The Franciad Epics on contemporary heroic adventures The Sons of Lusus The Poem of Araucania Romantic epics of medieval chivalry The ...
... EPIC . The four chief types of epic poetry in the Renaissance Direct imitations of classical epic The Franciad Epics on contemporary heroic adventures The Sons of Lusus The Poem of Araucania Romantic epics of medieval chivalry The ...
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... epic in the classical manner , and its very title symbolized the chief current of the Renaissance . These two poems make a bridge to the fourth and last class of Renaissance epic : Christian religious epics , on subjects from Jewish and ...
... epic in the classical manner , and its very title symbolized the chief current of the Renaissance . These two poems make a bridge to the fourth and last class of Renaissance epic : Christian religious epics , on subjects from Jewish and ...
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... epic like the Margites attributed to Homer : for we know virtually nothing about the Margites , of which only a few words survive , and the only ancient poem which could be called a comic epic is The Battle of Frogs and Mice ...
... epic like the Margites attributed to Homer : for we know virtually nothing about the Margites , of which only a few words survive , and the only ancient poem which could be called a comic epic is The Battle of Frogs and Mice ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Christianity enriched by GrecoRoman folklore | 9 |
PASTORAL | 12 |
Urheberrecht | |
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