From Achilles to Christ : why Christians should read the pagan classics /
Markos, Louis.
From Achilles to Christ : why Christians should read the pagan classics / Louis Markos. - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2007. - 264 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Hesiod's Theogony : in the beginning -- Homer's Iliad I : a history of conflict -- Homer's Iliad II : civilization versus barbarism -- Homer's Iliad III : a new ethic -- Homer's Iliad IV : from wrath to reconciliation -- Homer's Odyssey I : coming of age -- Homer's Odyssey II : coming home -- Homer's Odyssey III : the journeys of Odysseus -- Aeschylus's Prometheus bound : the birth of tragedy -- Aeschylus's Oresteia : pagan poets and Hebrew prophets -- Sophocles' Oedipus : the human scapegoat -- Sophocles' Antigone and Electra : questions of duty -- Sophocles' Women of Trachis and Philoctetes : the tragedy of character -- Euripides' Electra and Medea : the na�ive and the sentimental -- Euripides' Bacchae and Hippolytus : Apollonian versus Dionysiac -- The sacred history of Rome -- The making of a Roman epic -- Virgil's Aeneid I : the fall of Troy -- Virgil's Aeneid II : Aeneas and Dido -- Virgil's Aeneid III : to hell and back -- Virgil's Aeneid IV : just war?
9780830825936 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830825932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007016680
Christianity and other religions--Greek.
Christianity and other religions--Roman.
Christianity and literature.
Classical literature--Appreciation.
BR 128 .G8 / M34 2007
From Achilles to Christ : why Christians should read the pagan classics / Louis Markos. - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2007. - 264 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Hesiod's Theogony : in the beginning -- Homer's Iliad I : a history of conflict -- Homer's Iliad II : civilization versus barbarism -- Homer's Iliad III : a new ethic -- Homer's Iliad IV : from wrath to reconciliation -- Homer's Odyssey I : coming of age -- Homer's Odyssey II : coming home -- Homer's Odyssey III : the journeys of Odysseus -- Aeschylus's Prometheus bound : the birth of tragedy -- Aeschylus's Oresteia : pagan poets and Hebrew prophets -- Sophocles' Oedipus : the human scapegoat -- Sophocles' Antigone and Electra : questions of duty -- Sophocles' Women of Trachis and Philoctetes : the tragedy of character -- Euripides' Electra and Medea : the na�ive and the sentimental -- Euripides' Bacchae and Hippolytus : Apollonian versus Dionysiac -- The sacred history of Rome -- The making of a Roman epic -- Virgil's Aeneid I : the fall of Troy -- Virgil's Aeneid II : Aeneas and Dido -- Virgil's Aeneid III : to hell and back -- Virgil's Aeneid IV : just war?
9780830825936 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830825932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007016680
Christianity and other religions--Greek.
Christianity and other religions--Roman.
Christianity and literature.
Classical literature--Appreciation.
BR 128 .G8 / M34 2007