Joseph of Exeter: Trojan War: Books I-III

by Liverpool University Press

Overview

Joseph wrote his epic around the year 1180, and revised it at the court of Henry II of England where he had obtained some sort of post through the influence of his uncle, Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856682957
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1986
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	8.57(w) x 5.49(h) x 0.56(d)

Table of Contents

Editor's preface
INTRODUCTION
The author Works- Trojan War
-Religious Poems
-Antiocheis
Source of the Trojan War Story in the Middle Ages
Joseph of Exeter and the Court of Henry II
Notes to the Introduction
Select Bibliography

TROJAN WAR
Text and Translation
Commentary