Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Epic and empire: versions of actium
  • Repetition and ideology in the Aeneid
  • The epic curse and Camões' adamastor
  • Epics of the defeated: the other tradition of Lucan, Ercilla, and d'Aubigné
  • Political allegory in the Gerusalemme liberata
  • Tasso, Milton, and the boat of romance
  • Paradise lost and the fall of the English commonwealth
  • David's census: Milton's politics and Paradise regained
  • Ossian, medieval "epic", and Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky.