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Epic and History - 9781405193078

Un libro in lingua di Konstan David (EDT) Raaflaub Kurt A. (EDT) edito da John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2010

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The volume results from a project of the Program in Ancient Studies at Brown University to investigate one of the important means by which pre-modern societies commemorated the past and transmitted such memories over time. Specialists in the literature and culture of various traditions in which written or oral epic existed or exists explore the relationship between a performance of narrative and the events in the past they portray. The anthology allows comparison between the traditions covered, and adds to the sparse knowledge about epic and history by providing a number of concrete examples. Among the studies are historical events and the process of their transformation in Akkadian heroic traditions, epic and history in the Hebrew Bible, historical narrative in archaic and early classical Greek elegy, historicity and anachronism in Beowulf, traditional history in South Slavic oral epic, and epic and history in the Arabic tradition. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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