Description:
Shows how classical ideas and material helped to shape the modern world. This book rethinks the characterization of two contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern.
Brief description: Susanna Morton Braund is Professor of Latin Poetry and Its Reception at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She has published extensively on Roman satire, Latin epic poetry and Seneca, including for Bloomsbury The Roman Satirists and Their Masks (1998).
Review Quotes: "Professor Kahane is the Scheherazade of our days: a brilliant storyteller himself, he has woven together a theoretically sophisticated fabric of novel and epic that speaks adroitly of antiquity but interfaces engagingly with modernity." --Paul Cartledge, Emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, University of Cambridge, UK