From Achilles to Christ

Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics

By Louis Markos

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 264 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: July 2007

ISBN-10: 0-8308-2593-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2593-6
IVP Order Code: 2593

Related Subjects

Education
Literature/Literary Criticism

Introduction: The Only Complete Truth

Part I: Homer
1. Hesiod's Theogony: In the Beginning
2. Homer's Iliad I: A History in Conflict
3. Homer's Iliad II: Civilization vs. Barbarism
4. Homer's Iliad III: A New Ethic
5. Homer's Iliad IV: From Wrath to Reconciliation
6. Homer's Odyssey I: Coming of Age
7. Homer's Odyssey II: Coming Home
8. Homer's Odyssey III: The Journeys of Odysseus

Part II: The Greek Tragedians
9. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound: The Birth of Tragedy
10. Aeschylus' Oresteia: Pagan Poets and Hebrew Prophets
11. Sophocles' Oedipus: The Human Scapegoat
12. Sophocles' Antigone and Electra: Questions of Duty
13. Sophocles' Women of Trachis and Philoctetes: The Tragedy of Character
14. Euripedes' Electra and Medea: The Naive and the Sentimental
15. Euripides' Bacchae and Hippolytus: Apollonian vs. Dionysiac

Part III. Virgil
16. The Sacred History of Rome
17. The Making of a Roman Epic
18. Virgil's Aeneid I: The Fall of Troy
19. Virgil's Aeneid II: Aeneas and Dido
20. Virgil's Aeneid III: To Hell and Back
21. Virgil's Aeneid IV: Just War?

Conclusion: The Myth Made Fact
Bibliographical Essay
Index