"Ancient Epic" offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. It provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic. It offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context. It includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts.