The Cambridge companion to Homer

Title
  1. The Cambridge companion to Homer / edited by Robert Fowler.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Additional authors
  1. Fowler, R. L. (Robert Louis), 1954-
Description
  1. xvii, 419 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Cambridge companions to literature
Uniform title
  1. Cambridge companions to literature.
Subject
  1. Homer > Criticism and interpretation
  2. Mythologie grecque dans la littérature > Guides, manuels, etc
  3. Ilias (Homerus)
  4. Mythology, Greek, in literature > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  5. Homère > Critique et interprétation > Guides, manuels, etc
  6. Odyssea (Homerus)
  7. Poésie épique grecque > Histoire et critique > Guides, manuels, etc
  8. Receptie
  9. Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  10. Homer > Criticism and interpretation > Handbooks, manuals, etc
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.