How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in

How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in

Roman epic is both index and critique of the foundational culture of the western world. It is one of Europe's most persistent and determinant poetic modes. In t

The first full study of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Greco-Roman epic poetry, illuminating many major texts.