From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan ClassicsInterVarsity Press, 2009 M09 20 "The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact." --C. S. Lewis In From Achilles to Christ, Louis Markos introduces readers to the great narratives of classical mythology from a Christian perspective. From the battles of Achilles and the adventures of Odysseus to the feats of Hercules and the trials of Aeneas, Markos shows how the characters, themes and symbols within these myths both foreshadow and find their fulfillment in the story of Jesus Christ--the "myth made fact." Along the way, he dispels misplaced fears about the dangers of reading classical literature, and offers a Christian approach to the interpretation and appropriation of these great literary works. This engaging and eminently readable book is an excellent resource for Christian students, teachers and readers of classical literature. |
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... Epic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 18 Virgil's AeneidI: The Fall of Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 19 Virgil's Aeneid II: Aeneas and Dido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 20 Virgil's ...
... Epic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 18 Virgil's AeneidI: The Fall of Troy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 19 Virgil's Aeneid II: Aeneas and Dido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 20 Virgil's ...
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... epic, as in troubled water or in fantastic dreams.7 Wherever man has sought with his entire being to perceive the truths of his Creator, God is there. He does not always approve, but he is always present. And at times he speaks through ...
... epic, as in troubled water or in fantastic dreams.7 Wherever man has sought with his entire being to perceive the truths of his Creator, God is there. He does not always approve, but he is always present. And at times he speaks through ...
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... epics; part two will take up the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; part three will consider the origin, plan and contents of Virgil's Roman epic, the Aeneid. I will not discuss the works of the supreme proto-Christian Plato ...
... epics; part two will take up the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; part three will consider the origin, plan and contents of Virgil's Roman epic, the Aeneid. I will not discuss the works of the supreme proto-Christian Plato ...
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... epic immediately notice, the Iliad re- counts neither the beginning nor the end of the war. The action of the epic limits itself to a roughly two-week period in the final year of a ten-year war. Homer's Illiad I 37 Homer, like those who ...
... epic immediately notice, the Iliad re- counts neither the beginning nor the end of the war. The action of the epic limits itself to a roughly two-week period in the final year of a ten-year war. Homer's Illiad I 37 Homer, like those who ...
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... epic poem—not with the golden apple, the judgment of Paris, the abduction of Helen, or the sailing of the Greeks. Aristotle dubbed this technique in medias res (“in the middle of things”), a literary device that poets since Homer have ...
... epic poem—not with the golden apple, the judgment of Paris, the abduction of Helen, or the sailing of the Greeks. Aristotle dubbed this technique in medias res (“in the middle of things”), a literary device that poets since Homer have ...
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A New Ethic | 60 |
From Wrath to Reconciliation | 69 |
Coming of Age | 79 |
The Tragedy of Character | 157 |
The Naïve and the Sentimental | 167 |
Apollonian versus Dionysiac | 179 |
VIRGIL | 191 |
The Sacred History of Rome | 193 |
The Making of a Roman Epic | 202 |
The Fall of Troy | 210 |
Aeneas and Dido | 219 |
Coming Home | 89 |
The Journeys of Odysseus | 100 |
THE GREEK TRAGEDIANS | 113 |
The Birth of Tragedy | 115 |
Pagan Poets and Hebrew Prophets | 124 |
The Human Scapegoat | 135 |
Questions of Duty | 146 |
To Hell and Back | 229 |
Just War? | 237 |
The Myth Made Fact | 247 |
Bibliographical Essay | 251 |
Index | 258 |
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