Charon and the Crossing: Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Transformations of a Myth

by: Terpening, R.H.

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I The Classical Background
1. Greek Epic: Homer and the Minyas
2. Greek Lyric and Tragedy
3. Greek Comedy: Aristophanes
4. Hellenistic Poetry and the Later Greek Epigram
5. Latin Epic: Virgil and Lucan
6. Latin Lyric and Related Poetic Forms
7. Latin Tragedy: Seneca
8. Prose Dialogues and Narrative
PART II Charon in Italy from Dante to Marino
9. Epic Forms
i. Sacred Poems, Allegorical-Didactic Poems, and Christian Epic
ii. Classical Epic and Chivalric Romance
iii. Mock-Heroic Poems
iv. Mythological Epic
v. Conclusion
10. Dramatic Forms
i. Mythological Fables
ii." Farce and Tragicomedy
iii. Intermedi
iv. Melodrama
v. Conclusion
11. Lyric and Related Poetic Forms •
i. Epic Motifs :.
ii. Tragic or Elegiac Motifs
iii. Mythological and Amorous Motifs
iv. Satirical Motifs
v. Religious Motifs
vi. Conclusion
12. Prose Forms 
i. Commentators of Dante, Mythographers, and Iconographers 
ii. Dialogues 
iii. Narrative 
Conclusion 
Bibliography 
Primary Sources: Part One 
Primary Sources: Part Two 
Secondary Sources 
Index 

Charon and the Crossing: Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Transformations of a Myth

by: Terpening, R.H.

• ISBN-13: 9780838750612 / 978-0-8387-5061-2
• ISBN-03: 0838750613 / 0-8387-5061-3
• Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, 1985

Price: 98,00 EURO

1 copy in stock