Epic and Epoch Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre

Richard Joseph Golsan, Steven M. Oberhelman, Van Kelly — 1994

Epic and Epoch is a collection of essays based on the works of artists such as Homer, Vergil, Statius, Ovid, Dante, among others. The essays in this book are not only based on history, but on various interpretations of a genre. Rhetorical, literary historical, feminist, and cultural are a few of several perspectives represented in this book.