The Aethiopis: Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed

by Malcolm Davies and Malcolm Davies

It may seem odd to devote an entire book, however short, to a lost epic of which hardly any fragments (as normally defined) survive. The existence of a late prose summary of the epic's contents hardly dispels that oddness. One (rather long) word may supply justification: Neoanalysis.

This once influential theory held that motifs and episodes in the Iliad derive from the Aethiopis, called thus after an Ethiopian prince who allied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067408831X
• ISBN13: 9780674088313
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"