Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry by Peter Toohey

Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

Peter Toohey

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nonfiction classics history literary medium-paced
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Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertai...

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