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Informationen zum Autor Robert Fowler is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek! University of Bristol. He is the author of The Nature of the Early Greek Lyric (University of Toronto Press! 1987). He has also edited Early Greek Mythology Vol 1 (Oxford University Press! 2001). Klappentext The two Homeric poems! the Iliad and the Odyssey! have long been considered masterpieces! and their influence on subsequent Greek and Western literature has been immense. An international team of experts discusses the poems! their background and composition! and subsequent reception to the present day. Each chapter features contemporary critical insights and closes with a guide to further reading on the topic. Zusammenfassung In this volume an international team of experts discusses the Iliad and the Odyssey! their background and composition and! most originally! their subsequent reception down to the present day. The work provides the best of contemporary scholarship! new critical insights and a guide to further reading on the topic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Robert Fowler; Part I. The Poems and their Narrator: 1. The Iliad: an unpredictable classic Donald Lateiner; 2. The Odyssey and its explorations Michael Silk; 3. The storyteller and his audience Ruth Scodel; Part II. The Characters: 4. The gods in the Homeric epics Emily Kearns; 5. Manhood and heroism Michael Clarke; 6. Gender and Homeric epic Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin; Part III. The Poet's Craft: 7. Formulas, metre and type-scenes Matthew Clarke; 8. Similes and other likenesses Richard Buxton; 9. The speeches Jasper Griffin; Part IV. Text and Context: 10. Epic as genre John Miles Foley; 11. The epic tradition in Greece Ken Dowden; 12. Homer's society Robin Osborne; 13. The Homeric question Robert Fowler; Part V. Homeric Receptions: 14. Homer and Greek literature Richard Hunter; 15. Roman Homer Joseph Farrell; 16. Homer and English epic Penelope Wilson; 17. Homer and the Romantics Timothy Webb; 18. Homer and Ulysses Vanda Zajko; 19. Homer: the history of an idea James Porter; 20. 'Shards and suckers': contemporary receptions of Homer Lorna Hardwick; 21. Homer in English translation George Steiner....
