Author: Richard HunterPublisher:
ISBN: 1108428312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Placing homer -- Homer and the divine -- The golden verses -- Homer among the scholars -- The pleasures of song
The Measure of Homer
Author: Richard HunterPublisher:
ISBN: 1108428312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Placing homer -- Homer and the divine -- The golden verses -- Homer among the scholars -- The pleasures of song
The Measure of Homer
Author: Richard L. HunterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108449281
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. In this book, Richard Hunter explores central themes in the poems' reception in antiquity, paying particular attention to Homer's importance in shaping ancient culture. Subjects include the geographical and educational breadth of Homeric reception, the literary and theological influence of Homer's depiction of the gods, Homeric poetry and sympotic culture, scholarly and rhetorical approaches to Homer, Homer in the satires of Plutarch and Lucian, and how Homer shaped ideas about the power of music and song. This is a major and innovative contribution to the study of the dominant literary force in Greek culture and of the Greek literary engagement with the past. Through the study of their influence and reception, this book also sheds rich light on the Homeric poems themselves. All Greek and Latin are translated.
The Measure of Homer
Author: Richard HunterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108602010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. In this book, Richard Hunter explores central themes in the poems' reception in antiquity, paying particular attention to Homer's importance in shaping ancient culture. Subjects include the geographical and educational breadth of Homeric reception, the literary and theological influence of Homer's depiction of the gods, Homeric poetry and sympotic culture, scholarly and rhetorical approaches to Homer, Homer in the satires of Plutarch and Lucian, and how Homer shaped ideas about the power of music and song. This is a major and innovative contribution to the study of the dominant literary force in Greek culture and of the Greek literary engagement with the past. Through the study of their influence and reception, this book also sheds rich light on the Homeric poems themselves. All Greek and Latin are translated.
Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey
Author: Alberto ManguelPublisher: Canongate U.S.
ISBN: 9780802143822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Examines "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" from their origins, the colorful characters and events chronicling the Trojan War and its aftermath, and their legacy for Western culture.
Homer on Life and Death
Author: Jasper GriffinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198140269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profound.
Homer
Author: James I. PorterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226675904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions about who he was, when he lived, and whether he was an actual person, a myth, or merely a shared idea. Rather than attempting to solve the mystery of this character, James I. Porter explores the sources of Homer’s mystique and their impact since the first recorded mentions of Homer in ancient Greece. Homer: The Very Idea considers Homer not as a man, but as a cultural invention nearly as distinctive and important as the poems attributed to him, following the cultural history of an idea and of the obsession that is reborn every time Homer is imagined. Offering novel readings of texts and objects, the book follows the very idea of Homer from his earliest mentions to his most recent imaginings in literature, criticism, philosophy, visual art, and classical archaeology.
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond
Author: Jacqueline KloosterPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004365850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range of essays discussing generically diverse receptions of the epics of Homer in historically diverse contexts, this question is answered in various ways. Rather than considering Homer’s works as literary products, then, this volume discusses the pedagogic dimension of the Iliad and the Odyssey as perceived by later thinkers and writers interested in the parameters of good rule, such as Plato, Philodemus, Polybius, Vergil, and Eustathios.
Reading Homer’s Odyssey
Author: Kostas MyrsiadesPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684481368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Reading Homer's Odyssey is a book by book commentary on the epic's major themes. Each of the epic's 24 books are divided into sections to stress the length and the importance placed on specific topics and episodes. Footnotes are provided throughout to clarify and complete myths that Homer leaves unfinished, to explain certain terms and phrases, and to provide background information whenever necessary. Additionally, there is a bibliography on the Odyssey, as well as bibliographies that accompany each book's commentary.
Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue
Author: Peter J. AhrensdorfPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521193885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in political and moral philosophy.
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