TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory,Tobias
TI  - From many gods to one: divine action in Renaissance epic 
SN  - 9780226307565 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PN1333.G63 G74 2006eb
U1  - 809.1/3209351 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Epic poetry, European
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - European poetry
KW  - Renaissance, 1450-1600
KW  - God in literature
KW  - Gods in literature
KW  - Poésie épique européenne
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Poésie européenne
KW  - 1450-1600 (Renaissance)
KW  - Dieu dans la littérature
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Special Interest
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - Dichtkunst
KW  - gtt
KW  - Goden
KW  - პოეზია
KW  - ლიტერატურული კრიტიკა
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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