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From Achilles to Christ : why Christians should read the pagan classics
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From Achilles to Christ : why Christians should read the pagan classics / Louis Markos.
ISBN
9780830825936 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0830825932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2007.
Physical Description
264 p. ; 23 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 04, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Contents
Hesiod's Theogony : in the beginning
Homer's Iliad I : a history of conflict
Homer's Iliad II : civilization versus barbarism
Homer's Iliad III : a new ethic
Homer's Iliad IV : from wrath to reconciliation
Homer's Odyssey I : coming of age
Homer's Odyssey II : coming home
Homer's Odyssey III : the journeys of Odysseus
Aeschylus's Prometheus bound : the birth of tragedy
Aeschylus's Oresteia : pagan poets and Hebrew prophets
Sophocles' Oedipus : the human scapegoat
Sophocles' Antigone and Electra : questions of duty
Sophocles' Women of Trachis and Philoctetes : the tragedy of character
Euripides' Electra and Medea : the naïve and the sentimental
Euripides' Bacchae and Hippolytus : Apollonian versus Dionysiac
The sacred history of Rome
The making of a Roman epic
Virgil's Aeneid I : the fall of Troy
Virgil's Aeneid II : Aeneas and Dido
Virgil's Aeneid III : to hell and back
Virgil's Aeneid IV : just war?
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