The Cambridge companion to Homer
- Title
- The Cambridge companion to Homer / edited by Robert Fowler.
- Published by
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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- Description
- xvii, 419 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series statement
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Uniform title
- Cambridge companions to literature.
- Subject
- Homer > Criticism and interpretation
- Mythologie grecque dans la littérature > Guides, manuels, etc
- Ilias (Homerus)
- Mythology, Greek, in literature > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Homère > Critique et interprétation > Guides, manuels, etc
- Odyssea (Homerus)
- Poésie épique grecque > Histoire et critique > Guides, manuels, etc
- Receptie
- Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Homer > Criticism and interpretation > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Contents
- pt. 1. The poems and their narrator. The Iliad : an unpredictable classic / Donald Lateiner ; The Odyssey and its explorations / Michael Silk ; The story-teller and his audience / Ruth Scodel -- pt. 2. The characters. The Gods in the Homeric epics / Emily Kearns ; Manhood and heroism / Michael Clarke ; Gender and Homeric epic / Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin -- pt. 3. The poet's craft. Formulas, metre and type-scenes / Matthew Clark ; Similes and other likenesses / Richard Buxton ; The speeches / Jasper Griffin -- pt. 4. Text and context. Epic as genre / John Miles Foley ; The epic tradition in Greece / Ken Dowden ; Homer's society / Robin Osborne ; The Homeric question / Robert Fowler -- pt. 5. Homeric receptions. Homer and Greek literature / Richard Hunter ; Roman Homer / Joseph Farrell ; Homer and English epic / Penelope Wilson ; Homer and the Romantics / Timothy Webb ; Homer and Ulysses / Vanda Zajko ; Homer : the history of an idea / James I. Porter ; "Shards and suckers" : contemporary receptions of Homer / Lorna Hardwick ; Homer in English translation / George Steiner.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.