The Alexandra of Lycophron: A Literary Study

by Charles McNelis and Alexander Sens

This monograph is a literary study of Lycophron's Alexandra, whose obscurity, a quality notorious already in antiquity, has long hampered holistic approaches. Through a series of distinct but closely integrated literary studies of major aspects of the poem, including its style, its engagement with the traditions of epic and tragedy, and it's treatment of heroism and of the gods, the book explores the way the Alexandra reconfigures Greek mythology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199601895
• ISBN13: 9780199601899
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"