Homer

  • Homer: Odyssey
    By Homer

    Brief sections also discuss Homeric metre and the transmission of the text.

  • Homer: The Very Idea
    By James I. Porter

    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.

  • Homer
    By Paolo Vivante

    Rather than narrative, Homer presents events in the making, as the story takes shape through the rhythm of successive acts.

  • Homer: German Scholarship in Translation

    This book translates into English ten influential articles and extracts from books about Homer written in German over the past fifty years.

  • Homer: The Iliad
    By William Allan

    A clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture.

  • Homer: Poet of the Iliad
    By Mark W. Edwards

    In the second half of the book, Edwards's scene-by-scene explication of ten major books of the Iliad leads the reader to a greater perception of Homer's mastery and manipulation of convention.

  • Homer: Iliad
    By Homer

    Also provided is a full historical account of Homeric language. The edition will be indispensable for students and instructors.

  • Homer: Iliad
    By Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold

    ... their help, the poet is in exactly the same position as his audience: 'we have only heard the klov, and know nothing'. klov is, literally, 'what is heard': the word sometimes describes the subject matter of epic poetry (e.g. Od ...

  • Homer: The Homeric world
    By Irene J. F. de Jong

    ... les épouses des héros dans les poèmes . On vient de voir com- ment Ulysse prêt à de nouvelles aventures pour reconstituer son patrimoine dilapidé par les prétendants , confiait la garde de sa maison à Pénélope . Les poèmes mettent à ...

  • Homer: A Transitional Reader
    By John H. O'Neil, Timothy F. Winters

    Selections from Homer's Iliad, each selection with vocabulary and grammar notes, exercises, and a grammar review.

  • Homer: The creation of the poems
    By Irene J. F. de Jong

    ... Papers on Language and Mediaeval Studies Presented to Alfred Schopf , 39-57 , Frankfurt . ( 1992 ) Vokalität . Altenglische Dichtung zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit , Tübingen . Schiffrin , D. ( 1994 ) Approaches to Discourse ...

  • Homer: The Odyssey
    By Homer, William Lucas Collins

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • Homer: The Resonance of Epic
    By Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold

    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.

  • Homer
    By Barry B. Powell

    This concise book is a complete and contemporary introduction to Homer and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

  • Homer: Odyssey Books XVII-XVIII
    By Homer, Deborah Steiner

    ... Das usbekische Heldenepos Alpomish: Einfiihrung, Text, Ubersetzung, Wiesbaden Richardson, L.J. D. 1961. 'The origin and prefix of Bou- in comedy', Hermathena 15: 53-63 Richardson, N.J. ed. 1974. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Oxford 1975 ...

  • Homer: Iliad Book I
    By Seth L. Schein

    Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding.

  • Homer: The Iliad
    By William Allan

    This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture.

  • Homer
    By Homer

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed
    By Ahuvia Kahane

    ... Homer and the Monuments. London: MacMillan and Co. Lowenstam, S. 2000. 'The Shroud of Laertes and Penelope's Guile', Classicaljournal 95: 333-48. Luce, T. V. 1998. Celebrating Homer's Landscapes: Troy and Ithaca Revisited. New Haven ...