Introduction: (pushing) the limits of epic Emma Greensmith; Part I. Epic Engagements: 1. Greek and near eastern epic: context and comparison Bernardo Ballesteros; 2. Epic and lyric Henry Spelman; 3. Didactic (and) epic Emily Kneebone; Part II. Epic Space: 4. Space and story: the Iliad and odyssey Christos Tsagalis; 5. Do not talk death to me: the epic underworld Karolina Sekita; 6. Epic dislocation: nostalgia and return Alexander C. Loney; 7. Shrunken epic: the poetics of epyllion Berenice Verhelst; Part III. Epic Time: 8. A brief history of epic time Simon Goldhill; 9. Time and again: Apollonius' Argonautica Tom Phillips; 10. Trojan temporality in imperial Greek epic Emma Greensmith; Part IV. Epic People: 11. The language of epic sacrifice Renaud Gagné; 12. Epic racecraft and the race of heroes Jackie Murray; 13. Women in homer and beyond Emily Hauser; Part V. Epic Feelings: 14. Before, beneath, beyond emotions: reading affects in epic Pauline LeVen; 15. Humour in Greek epic Matt Hosty; 16. Love, desire and erotics Steven D. Smith; Part VI. Epic Without End: 17. Ancient readers of Greek epic Richard Hunter; 18. Greek epic in a Christian empire: grit in the eye Tim Whitmarsh; 19. The fates of epic in Byzantium: homer for a new era Markéta Kulhánková; 20. Homeric epic and nation building in modern Greece and Turkey Johanna Hanink; 21. Ancient Greek epic and the cinema: transformations and archetypes Martin M. Winkler; Epilogue: a continuous song: reflections on Greek epic in the modern Greek lands Panayiotis Christoforou; Chapter abstracts; Timeline of ancient Greek epic; Bibliography; Index locorum; Subject Index.