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Homer: The Iliad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

Homer: The Iliad

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-20
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture. It discusses central aspects of the work (including the tradition of oral poetry, the style and structure of the epic, and its depiction of the gods, heroism, war, and gender roles) and guides the reader in understanding the skill and profundity of Homer's achievement. This introduction is ideal for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools, but it requires no knowledge of ancient Greek and is intended for all readers interested in Homer. The Classical World series is well established and explores the culture and achievements of the civilizations of Greece and Rome. Concise yet informative and stimulating, each book includes illustrations and suggestions for further reading and study. Designed specifically for students and teachers of Classical Civilization at late school and early university level, the series provides an up-to-date collection of accessible guides to the history, institutions, literature, art and values of the Classical world.

Chapman's Homer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 522

Chapman's Homer

George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Odyssey (1614-15), makin...

The Poetry of Homer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

The Poetry of Homer

Samuel Eliot Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer investigates the rhetorical techniques that have made the Iliad and the Odyssey speak to audiences throughout the ages. Combining a sublime poetic sensitivity with thorough scholarship this work offers original analyses of many topics, including the Homeric narrator's presentation of his story, his evocation of character through direct speech, the organization of speeches and descriptions into vivd dramatic situations, the pacing and emotional weight of similes and narratorial interventions, and the expressive variation in rhythms and word-groupings. A prolific and insightful contributor to Homeric scholarship, Bassett was invited to deliver the Sather Classical Lecture at Berkeley, but he died with the manuscript unpublished. This work, published posthumously in 1938 as The Poetry of Homer, has left its mark on a generation of classicists. Lexington is proud to bring such an important and influential book back into print in this new edition, edited and introduced by Bruce Heiden with a foreword by Greg Nagy.

Homer, His Art and His World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Homer, His Art and His World

  • Categories: Art

Published to great success in Europe, Joachim Latacz's bookHomer, His Art and His Worldis now widely available to an English-speaking audience.Homer, His Art and His Worldtakes Homer out of the preserve of specialists, and carefully outlines the historical background to Homer and his poetry. Current perspectives on the Iliad and the Odyssey are explained clearly, and narrow philological questions are deliberately avoided. Written in an accessible style for lovers of Homer and all who would like to be, Latacz's book brings Homer closer to the modern audience as a poet, and not as a historical source.Homer, His Art and His Worldincludes sections on the relevance of Homer to modern issues in li...

Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the history and interpretation of Homer. Although attributed to Plutarch, the Essay is probably the work of a grammaticus of the second and thirdcentury and is the single most valuable source of evidence for the nature of the teaching of Homer in the schools of the Roman Empire. Well represented in the manuscript tradition, the Essay was used as prefatory material by Renaissance editors of Homer, beginning with the editio princeps (1488), and so exercised a powerful influence on Renaissance and early-modern readers, who often refer to "Plutarch" as an authority on Homer. The newly edited Greek text is presented with facing translation.

Homer for Beginners. Iliad, Book 1-3. With English notes, by ... T. K. Arnold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

Homer for Beginners. Iliad, Book 1-3. With English notes, by ... T. K. Arnold

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1851
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Homer and the Sacred City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Homer and the Sacred City

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the Iliad, as well as the collision of the individual fates of its characters, which generates its most profound tragic themes.

Best Work of Homer: The Odyssey and The Iliad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 962

Best Work of Homer: The Odyssey and The Iliad

Embark on an Epic Journey with "Homer's Masterpieces: Unraveling the Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece" Prepare to be swept away by the timeless tales of Homer with this captivating 2 Ebook combo, featuring two of the greatest works of classical literature. Book 1: The Odyssey by Homer Join the legendary hero Odysseus on his epic journey across the wine-dark seas in "The Odyssey." From his encounter with the Cyclops Polyphemus to his confrontation with the sorceress Circe, Odysseus faces myriad challenges as he strives to return home to his beloved Ithaca. Homer's epic poem is a testament to the enduring power of the human spirit and the timeless quest for homecoming. Book 2: The Iliad by ...

The Odyssey by Homer (Annotated)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 387

The Odyssey by Homer (Annotated)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-27
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still read by contemporary audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In ...