Charles Rowan Beye
Charles Rowan Beye is Distinguished Professor of Classics Emeritus and was Executive Officer of the Classics Graduate Program of the City University of New York. Beye received a BA in classics from the State University of Iowa and an MA and PhD in classical philology from Harvard University. He has taught at Boston University, Stanford University, and Yale University. Beye is the author of numerous books and articles about the classics. His books include Ancient Greek Literature and Society (Cornell University Press, 1987), Odysseus: A Life (Hyperion, 2004), and Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil with a Chapter on the Gilgamesh Poems (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2006).
Books by Charles Rowan Beye
Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil With a Chapter on the Gilgamesh Poems
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- 978-0-86516-607-3
Charles Rowan Beye's critically acclaimed interpretive introduction to the epic poetry and poets of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Assyria is here reprinted in an expanded second edition with a new preface, new chapter on Gilgamesh, and an Appendix of Further Reading 1993–2005.
