Reading Homer's Iliad

by Kostas Myrsiades

We still read Homer's epic The Iliad two-and-one-half millennia since its emergence for the questions it poses and the answers it provides for our age, as viable today as they were in Homer's own times. What is worth dying for? What is the meaning of honor and fame? What are the consequences of intense emotion and violence? What does recognition of one's mortality teach? We also turn to Homer's Iliad in the twenty-first century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684484480
• ISBN13: 9781684484485
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.2" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher