The war with God: theomachy in Roman imperial poetry

This work - the first full-length study of human-divine conflict in Roman literature - asks why the war against god was so important to the poets of the time and how this understudied period of literary history influenced a larger tradition in Western literature. Drawing on a variety of contexts - p...

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1. Verfasser: Chaudhuri, Pramit (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 2014
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Zusammenfassung:This work - the first full-length study of human-divine conflict in Roman literature - asks why the war against god was so important to the poets of the time and how this understudied period of literary history influenced a larger tradition in Western literature. Drawing on a variety of contexts - politics, religion, philosophy, and aesthetics - Pramit Chaudhuri argues for the fundamental importance of battles between humans and gods in representing the Roman world
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9780190204990
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199993383.001.0001

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