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Homer: The Resonance of Epic

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Availability:In StockContributor:Barbara Graziosi, Johannes HauboldSeries:Classical Literature and SocietyPublish date:2005-03-10Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bristol Classical PressISBN-13:9780715632826ISBN-10:715632825UPC:9780715632826Book Category:Literary Collections, Foreign Language Study, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient Languages, Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.18 x 6.30 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCV8K1E8ZP

Homer: The Resonance of Epic

This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the...

Series: Classical Literature and Society
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bristol Classical PressISBN-13:9780715632826ISBN-10:715632825UPC:9780715632826Book Category:Literary Collections, Foreign Language Study, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient Languages, Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.18 x 6.30 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCV8K1E8ZP

Barbara Graziosi is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Durham and the author of Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic (2002). Johannes Haubold is Lecturer in Greek Literature at the University of Durham and the author of Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation (2000).


Publisher: Bristol Classical Press

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