The Measure of Homer
| Author | : Richard Hunter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2018-04-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108428312 |
Placing homer -- Homer and the divine -- The golden verses -- Homer among the scholars -- The pleasures of song
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The Measure of Homer
| Author | : Richard L. Hunter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 9781108449281 |
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 Odyssey
| Author | : Homer |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 506 |
| Release | : 2022-05-28 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
The Odyssey is an epic poem written by Homer around the 9th century BC. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his voyage home following the Trojan War.
Rediscovering Homer
| Author | : Andrew Dalby |
| Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780393330199 |
A literary portrait of the epic songwriter and poet traces the historical origins of the Odyssey and the Iliad, describing the culture that shaped their first-generation audiences while exploring theories about how both poems were written by a single, female poet. Reprint.
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond
| Author | : Jacqueline Klooster |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2018-05-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004365850 |
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.
The Cambridge Guide to Homer
| Author | : Corinne Ondine Pache |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 974 |
| Release | : 2020-03-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1108663621 |
From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.
Homer's Text and Language
| Author | : Gregory Nagy |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780252029837 |
As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes enterprise. There are untold numbers of variations, imitations, alternate translations, and adaptations of the Iliad and Odyssey, making it difficult to establish what, exactly, the epics were. Gregory Nagy's essays have one central aim: to show how the text and language of Homer derive from an oral poetic system. In Homeric studies, there has been an ongoing debate centering on different ways to establish the text of Homer and the different ways to appreciate the poetry created in the language of Homer. Gregory Nagy, a lifelong Homer scholar, takes a stand in the midst of this debate. He presents an overview of millennia of scholarly engagement with Homer's poetry, shows the different editorial principles that have been applied to the texts, and evaluates their impact.
Money and the Early Greek Mind
| Author | : Richard Seaford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2004-03-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780521539920 |
How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.
