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Homer

Autor Jonathan S Burgess Editat de Richard Stoneman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2014
What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central paradox of 'Homer' is that- while recognized as producing poetry of incomparable genius- even in the ancien world nobody knew who he was. As a result, the myth-maker became the subject of myth. For the satirist Lucian (c.125-180 CE) he ws a captive Babylonian. Other traditions have Homer born in Smyrna, or on the island of Chios, or portray him as a blind and wandering minstrel. In his new and authoritative introduction, Jonathan S. Burgess addresses fundamental questions of provenance and authorship. Besides conveying why these epics have been cherished down the ages, he discusses their historical sources and the possible impact on the Iliad and Odyssey of Indo-European, Near Eastern and folktale influences. Tracing their transmission through the ancient, medieval and modern periods, the author further examines questions of theory and reception.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781848858633
ISBN-10: 1848858639
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 136 x 214 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements

Myths

Plots

Poetics

Texts and Pre-Texts

The Homeric Question

Theory

Reception

Notes
Bibliography
Index