Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen / / Cosetta Cadau.

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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Superior document:Mnemosyne Supplements, Volume 380
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; Volume 380.
Physical Description:1 online resource (332 pages).
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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.