Homer''s Trojan Theater - Space, Vision, and Memory in the Iiiad

Informationen zum Autor Jenny Strauss Clay is the William R. Kenan, Jr, Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and the author of The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey (1983), an influential study of the Odyssey, The Politics of Olympus (1989), a groundbreaking study of the Homeric Hymns, as well as numerous articles on Greek and Roman poetry. Her book Hesiod's Cosmos (2003) offers a new and coherent synthesis of the Theogony and the Works and Days. Klappentext Innovative and accessible study offering a new way of understanding how the Iliad poet envisions and renders visible his narrative. Zusammenfassung This highly innovative and accessible study by one of the world's leading Homeric scholars applies research in cognitive psychology and visual memory to offer a new way of understanding how the Iliad poet envisions and renders visible his narrative. Essential reading for all scholars! teachers and students of Homer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The sighted Muse; 2. Envisioning Troy; 3. Homer's Trojan theater.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Strauss Clay, Jenny Strauss Clay, Jenny (University of Virginia) Strauss Clay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521762779
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76277-9
• No. of pages: 146
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval