From many gods to one [electronic resource] : divine action in Renaissance epic / Tobias Gregory.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 247 p.)ISBN: - 9780226307565 (electronic bk.)
- 0226307565 (electronic bk.)
- Epic poetry, European -- History and criticism
- European poetry -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
- God in literature
- Gods in literature
- Poésie épique européenne -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie européenne -- 1450-1600 (Renaissance) -- Histoire et critique
- Dieu dans la littérature
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Dichtkunst
- Goden
- პოეზია
- ლიტერატურული კრიტიკა
- 809.1/3209351 22
- PN1333.G63 G74 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-235) and index.
The polytheistic model : Homer and Virgil -- Neo-Latin epic : Petrarch and Vida -- Providence, irony, and magic : Orlando furioso -- With God on our side : Gerusalemme liberata -- The tragedy of creaturely error : Paradise lost.
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 Renaissance recognized that the cantankerous Olympians could not be imitated too closely. The divine action of their classical models had to be transformed to accord with contemporary tastes and Christian belief. From Many Gods to One offers the first compar.
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