Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
4. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS viii
5. 1 IRISH NARRATIVE LITERATURE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, 900–1300 1
6. Part I The Irish Classical sagas
7. 2. Imtheachta Aeniasa and its place in medieval Irish textual history 23
8. 3 HISTORY AND HISTORIA: USES OF THE TROY STORY IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND AND WALES 40
9. 4 THE USES OF EXAGGERATION IN MERUGUD UILIXIS MEIC LEIRTIS AND IN FINGAL CHLAINNE TANNTAIL 58
10. 5 THE MEDIEVAL IRISH WANDERING OF ULYSSES BETWEEN LITERACY AND ORALITY 83
11. Part II The dynamics of Classical allusion
12. 6. Demonology, allegory and translation: the Furies and the Morrígan 99
13. 7 RECONSTRUCTING THE MEDIEVAL IRISH BOOKSHELF: A CASE STUDY OF FINGAL RÓNÁIN AND THE HORSE-EARED KINGS 123
14. 8 ‘THE METAPHORICAL HECTOR’: THE LITERARY PORTRAYAL OF MURCHAD MAC BRÍAIN 140
15. Part III Classical models for vernacular ‘epic’?
16. 9. Was Classical imitation necessary for the writing of large-scale Irish sagas? Reflections on Táin Bó Cúailnge and the ‘watchman device’ 163
17. 10. ‘Wrenching the club from the hand of Hercules’: Classical models for medieval Irish compilatio 196
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 208
19. INDEX 230
20. STUDIES IN CELTIC HISTORY 245