Author : Tobias Gregory
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459606183
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis From Many Gods To by : Tobias Gregory
Download or read book From Many Gods To written by Tobias Gregory and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic poets of the Renaissance looked to emulate the poems of Greco-Roman antiquity, but doing so presented a dilemma: what to do about the gods? Divine intervention plays a major part in the epics of Homer and Virgil - indeed, quarrels within the family of Olympian gods are essential to the narrative structure of those poems - yet poets of the R...