Homer: The Resonance of Epic

by Barbara Graziosi and Johannes Haubold

This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine cosmos, whose structures and themes are reflected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715632825
• ISBN13: 9780715632826
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"