Approaches to Homer

by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine and Carl A. Rubino

Book Overview

Modern Homeric scholarship is distinguished by a dazzling diversity of approaches. That diversity is brilliantly displayed in this volume, in which nine well-known classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history.

Several essays are primarily concerned with what the Homeric poems teach us about the past. Richard Hope Simpson,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292729464
• ISBN13: 9780292729469
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"