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The epic cycle

 
dc.contributor Davis, Malcolm
dc.contributor.author Davis, Malcolm
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-04T09:53:31Z
dc.date.available 2019-07-04T09:53:31Z
dc.date.created 1988
dc.date.issued 1989-05-04
dc.identifier ota:1308
dc.identifier.citation http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1308
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1308
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dc.language English
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.rights.label ACA
dc.title The epic cycle
dc.type Text
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otaterms.date.range 1900-1999

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<uPREFACE>u This little book is a pendant to the first part of my <uEpicorum Graecorum>u <uFragmenta>u published this year by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. It contains a literal English translation of those fragments of the Epic Cycle there edited which are directly quoted by ancient authors. It also contains a re/sume/ of the import of those fragments which are not verbal quotations; a paraphrase of Proclus' prose summary of the contents of the Trojan epics within the cycle; and a very brief commentary on fragments and prose summary. Perhaps this scheme needs some justification. Why, for instance, publish literal translations of those tiny portions of confessedly second-rate epics that happen to have survived? Partly, I suppose, because less literal translations that hide their originals' shortcomings can themselves be misleading. To take one example: Iona and Peter Opie, at the start of their fascinating book <uThe Singing Game>u (Oxford 1985 . . .
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