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This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, talking about their uses of classical literature in... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Michael Longley: Add a description of this character.
- Derek Walcott
- Sylvia Plath
- Paris: Trojan prince, brother of Hector. His stealing of Helen precipitated the Trojan War.
- Penelope: Faithful wife of Odysseus who kept her suitors at bay until her husband returned.
- Agamemnon: The son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.
- Clytemnestra: The wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. She was a femme fatale who murdered her husband, Agamemnon and the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom he had taken as war prize following the sack of Troy.
- Iphigenia: Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Sacrificed by her father to the god Artemis.
- Orestes: Son of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra.
- Zeus: In Greek mythology, Zeus is the "Father of Gods and men" who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family. He is the god of sky and thunder.
- Priam: King of Troy. Husband of Hecuba and father of Hector, Paris and Cassandra.
- Hecuba: Queen of Troy. Wife of Priam and mother of Hector, Paris and Cassandra.
- Creon: A figure in Greek mythology best known as the ruler of Thebes in the legend of Oedipus. He had two children with his wife, Eurydice
- Horace
- Anne Carson
- Virgil
- Baxter
- Seamus Heaney
- Friel
- Geryon
- Brodsky
- Stephen Harrison
- Buchanan
- Antigone
- Josephine Balmer
- Aeneas
- Jimmy
- Anastasia Bakogianni
- Propertius
- Telemachus
- Ted Hughes
- Kenny
- Dido
- Robert Crawford
- Aggie
- Tony Harrison
- Ismene
- Hardwick
- Emily Greenwood
- Fitzgerald
- Edna Longley
- Ancash
- Sophocles: Greek Playwright.
- Euripides: Greek playwright.
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- Sappho
- New Zealand
- Caribbean
- Aeneid
- Belfast
- Northern Ireland
- Greece
- Thebes
- London
- Electra
- Stead
- Buenos Aires
- Iraq
- Scotland
- Dublin
- Lesbia
- Carthage
- Hades
- Laertes
- Azalea Path
- Sulpicia
- Ithaca
- France
- The Bounty
- Teesside
- Omeros
- England
- Derry
- Canidia
- Britain
- Italy
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: UK
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780199233731
Page Count: 346
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: UK
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780199233731
Page Count: 346
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PR508.C68 L58 2009
- Dewey: 821.9140935838
Subjects edit
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