Homer : a guide for the perplexed /
Homer?s poetry is widely recognized as the beginning of the literary tradition of the West and among its most influential canonical texts. Outlining a series of key themes, ideas, and values associated with Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed explores the question of the forma...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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| Series: | Guides for the perplexed.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Homer?s poetry is widely recognized as the beginning of the literary tradition of the West and among its most influential canonical texts. Outlining a series of key themes, ideas, and values associated with Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed explores the question of the formation of the Iliad and the Odyssey - the so-called ?Homeric Problem?. Among the main Homeric themes which the book considers are origin and form, orality and composition, heroic values, social structure, and social bias, gender roles and gendered interpretation, ethnicity, representations of religion. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441189264 (electronic bk.) 1441189262 (electronic bk.) 1283706245 9781283706247 |