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The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera - Classical Presences Van der Laan, Dr Sarah (Indiana University)
The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera - Classical Presences
Van der Laan, Dr Sarah (Indiana University)
The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the Odyssey by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic.
320 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 22, 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198778295 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 324 |
| Dimensions | 146 × 222 × 25 mm · 542 g |
| Language | English |