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The Cambridge companion to Homer
- Title
- The Cambridge companion to Homer / edited by Robert Fowler.
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Fowler, R. L. (Robert Louis), 1954-
- Description
- xvii, 419 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge companions to literature.
- Subjects
- Homer > Criticism and interpretation
- Homère > Critique et interprétation > Guides, manuels, etc
- Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Homer > Criticism and interpretation > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Ilias (Homerus)
- Receptie
- Odyssea (Homerus)
- Poésie épique grecque > Histoire et critique > Guides, manuels, etc
- Mythologie grecque dans la littérature > Guides, manuels, etc
- Mythology, Greek, in literature > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. The poems and their narrator. The Iliad : an unpredictable classic / Donald Lateiner ; The Odyssey and its explorations / Michael Silk ; The story-teller and his audience / Ruth Scodel -- pt. 2. The characters. The Gods in the Homeric epics / Emily Kearns ; Manhood and heroism / Michael Clarke ; Gender and Homeric epic / Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin -- pt. 3. The poet's craft. Formulas, metre and type-scenes / Matthew Clark ; Similes and other likenesses / Richard Buxton ; The speeches / Jasper Griffin -- pt. 4. Text and context. Epic as genre / John Miles Foley ; The epic tradition in Greece / Ken Dowden ; Homer's society / Robin Osborne ; The Homeric question / Robert Fowler -- pt. 5. Homeric receptions. Homer and Greek literature / Richard Hunter ; Roman Homer / Joseph Farrell ; Homer and English epic / Penelope Wilson ; Homer and the Romantics / Timothy Webb ; Homer and Ulysses / Vanda Zajko ; Homer : the history of an idea / James I. Porter ; "Shards and suckers" : contemporary receptions of Homer / Lorna Hardwick ; Homer in English translation / George Steiner.
- ISBN
- 0521813026
- 9780521813020
- 0521012465 (pbk.)
- 9780521012461 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2005279822
- 99818299971
- OCLC
- 56655232
- ocm56655232\
- SCSB-5159396
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries