'Cowboy Classics' explores epic traditions
"Cowboy Classics: The Roots of the American Western in the Epic Tradition" will be published in June.
The book, by 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@'s Dr. Kirsten Day, associate professor of Classics, looks at the connection between Western film and Greek and Roman epic, each of which focuses on a mythic-historical period from the past where our societal notions of what constitutes heroism, masculinity, and honor first were forged.