Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE

Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE By Matron de Pitane, S. Douglas Olson, Alexander Sens
1999 | 196 Pages | ISBN: 0788506145 | PDF | 3 MB
The fragments of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) offer insights not only into the largely forgotten and obscure late-classical genre of epic parody, but also into 4th-century Athenian history, the role of food and dining in antiquity, and the history of the text of Homer and the reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the pre-Alexanderian period.