The choice of Odysseus : Homeric ethics in Renaissance epic and opera / Sarah Van der Laan

Author: Van der Laan, Sarah Phillips
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Summary

'The Choice of Odysseus' demonstrates how the 'Odyssey' provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the 'Odyssey' by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic.

Subject(s)

Homer—Influence
Homer—Appreciation
Epic poetry—History and criticism
European poetry—Renaissance, 1450-1600—History and criticism
Literature
Literature: history & criticism

ISBN

9780191823817 ebook

Audience Notes

Specialized.

Note

Also issued in print: 2024.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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