From Many Gods To
Author | : Tobias Gregory |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2010-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781459606180 |
ISBN-13 | : 1459606183 |
Rating | : 4/5 (183 Downloads) |
Download or read book From Many Gods To written by Tobias Gregory and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic poets of the Renaissance looked to emulate the poems of Greco-Roman antiquity, but doing so presented a dilemma: what to do about the gods? Divine intervention plays a major part in the epics of Homer and Virgil - indeed, quarrels within the family of Olympian gods are essential to the narrative structure of those poems - yet poets of the R...