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Paperback Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation Book

ISBN: 0521066417

ISBN13: 9780521066419

Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation

(Part of the Cambridge Classical Studies Series)

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This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts. From a...

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