Allegories of the Odyssey

by John Tzetzes and Joannes Tzetzes

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics--even the ancient Greek language itself--had become almost unrecognizable to Byzantine Greek readers coming to the texts nearly two millennia later. The scholar, poet, and teacher John Tzetzes (ca. 1110-1180) joined the extensive tradition of interpreting Homer by producing his Allegories of the Iliad, dedicated to the foreign-born...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674238370
• ISBN13: 9780674238374
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 7.9"