'Odyssey' Re-Formed

Frederick Ahl is Professor of Classics and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. He is the author of a number of books, including Lucan: An Introduction, Seneca: Three Tragedies, and Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets. Hanna Roisman is Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities and Professor of Classics at Colby College. Hanna has published numerous journal articles and book chapters focusing on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod's didactic epics, Greek Elegy, the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and Classics and Contemporary Film and TV. She is the author of Loyalty in Early Greek Epic and Tragedy, Nothing is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides' Hippolytus, Sophocles: Philoctetes, and many other titles.

Summary

Frederick Ahl and Hanna M. Roisman offer a challenging new reading of the Odyssey that is directed to the general student of literature as well as to the classicist.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Ahl, Frederick (Professor Ahl, Frederick Roisman Ahl, Hanna M. Roisman, Hannah M. Roisman
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.1996
• EAN: 9780801483356
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8335-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cornell Studies in Classical P; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; Cornell Studies in Classical P
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies