Introduction / John Miles Foley -- Epic As Genre / Richard P. Martin -- The Indo-european Context / Joshua T. Katz -- Epic And Myth / Lowell Edmunds -- Performance / Minna Skafte Jensen -- Epic And History / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- The Epic Hero / Gregory Nagy -- The Gods In Epic, Or The Divine Economy / Bruce Louden -- Women In Ancient Epic / Helene P. Foley -- Archaeological Contexts / Susan Sherratt -- The Physical Media : Tablet, Scroll, Codex / Michael W. Haslam -- Ancient Reception / Robert Lamberton -- Translating Ancient Epic / Richard Hamilton Armstrong -- Analogues : Modern Oral Epics / John Miles Foley -- Comparative Observations On The Near Eastern Epic Traditions / Jack M. Sasson -- Mesopotamian Epic / Scott B. Noegel -- Epic In Ugaritic Literature / N. Wyatt -- Hittite And Hurrian Epic / Gary Beckman -- Persian/iranian Epic / Olga M. Davidson -- The Challenge Of Israelite Epic / Susan Niditch -- Near Eastern Connections / Walter Burkert -- Homer's Iliad / Mark W. Edwards -- Homer's Odyssey / Laura M. Slatkin -- Hesiod / Stephanie Nelson -- The Epic Cycle And Fragments / Jonathan S. Burgess -- Apollonius Of Rhodes / D.p. Nelis -- Quintus Of Smyrna / Alan James -- Nonnus / Robert Shorrock -- Epic And Other Genres In The Ancient Greek World / R. Scott Garner -- Homer's Post-classical Legacy / Casey DuΓ© -- The Origins And Essence Of Roman Epic / Joseph Farrell -- Early Republican Epic / Sander M. Goldberg -- Lucretius / Monica R. Gale -- Virgil's Aeneid / Michael C.j. Putnam -- Ovid / Carole E. Newlands -- Lucan / Shadi Bartsch -- Valerius Flaccus / Andrew Zissos -- Statius / William J. Dominik -- Silius Italicus / Raymond D. Marks -- Claudian / Michael H. Barnes -- Latin Christian Epics Of Late Antiquity / Dennis E. Trout -- Epic And Other Genres In The Roman World / R. Jenkyns -- Virgil's Post-classical Legacy / Craig Kallendorf. Edited By John Miles Foley. Isbn On Verso Of Title Page : 1405105248. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [589]-650) And Index.