Information and form : Homer, Achilles, and Statius / W. R. Johnson -- Sex, drug, and ... poetry / Jenny Strauss Clay -- Homecoming and hospitality : recognition and the construction of identity in the Odyssey / Marylin A. Katz -- Reading Penelope / Sheila Murnaghan -- Eurycleia and Eurynome as Penelope's confidantes / Victoria Pedrick -- Two peaks of Parnassus : Dante's Comedy and heroic poetry / J. K. Newman -- Spanish epic of revolt / Mercedes Vaquero -- Undifferentiation and violence : Girard and the Sagas / George S. Tate -- Milton and epic revisionism / John T. Shawcross -- Boring epic in early modern France / Ullrich Langer -- Toppling from Mount Olympus : the Romantic hero / Allan H. Pasco -- Constructing a larger Iliad : Ezra Pound and the vicissitudes of epic / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Stalin and the death of epic : Mikhail Bakhtin, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak / Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz -- Galdós and the theory and practice of epic in Spain (1805-1914) / Stephen Miller