In this volume an international team of experts discusses the Iliad and the Odyssey, their background and composition and, most originally, their subsequent reception down to the present day. The work provides the best of contemporary scholarship, new critical insights and a guide to further reading on the topic.
In this volume an international team of experts discusses the Iliad and the Odyssey, their background and composition and, most originally, their subsequent reception down to the present day. The work provides the best of contemporary scholarship, new critical insights and a guide to further reading on the topic.
Introduction Robert Fowler Part I. The Poems and their Narrator: 1. The Iliad: an unpredictable classic Donald Lateiner 2. The Odyssey and its explorations Michael Silk 3. The storyteller and his audience Ruth Scodel Part II. The Characters: 4. The gods in the Homeric epics Emily Kearns 5. Manhood and heroism Michael Clarke 6. Gender and Homeric epic Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin Part III. The Poet's Craft: 7. Formulas, metre and type-scenes Matthew Clarke 8. Similes and other likenesses Richard Buxton 9. The speeches Jasper Griffin Part IV. Text and Context: 10. Epic as genre John Miles Foley 11. The epic tradition in Greece Ken Dowden 12. Homer's society Robin Osborne 13. The Homeric question Robert Fowler Part V. Homeric Receptions: 14. Homer and Greek literature Richard Hunter 15. Roman Homer Joseph Farrell 16. Homer and English epic Penelope Wilson 17. Homer and the Romantics Timothy Webb 18. Homer and Ulysses Vanda Zajko 19. Homer: the history of an idea James Porter 20. 'Shards and suckers': contemporary receptions of Homer Lorna Hardwick 21. Homer in English translation George Steiner.
Introduction Robert Fowler Part I. The Poems and their Narrator: 1. The Iliad: an unpredictable classic Donald Lateiner 2. The Odyssey and its explorations Michael Silk 3. The storyteller and his audience Ruth Scodel Part II. The Characters: 4. The gods in the Homeric epics Emily Kearns 5. Manhood and heroism Michael Clarke 6. Gender and Homeric epic Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin Part III. The Poet's Craft: 7. Formulas, metre and type-scenes Matthew Clarke 8. Similes and other likenesses Richard Buxton 9. The speeches Jasper Griffin Part IV. Text and Context: 10. Epic as genre John Miles Foley 11. The epic tradition in Greece Ken Dowden 12. Homer's society Robin Osborne 13. The Homeric question Robert Fowler Part V. Homeric Receptions: 14. Homer and Greek literature Richard Hunter 15. Roman Homer Joseph Farrell 16. Homer and English epic Penelope Wilson 17. Homer and the Romantics Timothy Webb 18. Homer and Ulysses Vanda Zajko 19. Homer: the history of an idea James Porter 20. 'Shards and suckers': contemporary receptions of Homer Lorna Hardwick 21. Homer in English translation George Steiner.
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