Homer and the Odyssey

Zusatztext Saïd carefully guides the reader between the classic's history and fiction, demonstrating its astonishing complexity and unity ... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Saïd is Professor of Classics at Columbia University, New York. Klappentext With an introduction to the oral tradition which lay at the source of the Homeric epics and a discussion on the reception of the Homeric poems in Antiquity, this volume explores the mysterious figure of Homer, an author about whom little is known. Ruth Webb's translation is a revised and much expanded version of the original French text. Zusammenfassung With an introduction to the oral tradition which lay at the source of the Homeric epics and a discussion on the reception of the Homeric poems in Antiquity, this volume explores the mysterious figure of Homer, an author about whom little is known. Ruth Webb's translation is a revised and much expanded version of the original French text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Note on Translations 1: From 'Homer' to the Homeric Poems 2: The Art of Homer: Between Tradition and Innovation 3: Homer and History 4: The Odyssey: narrations, narrators, and poets 5: The Adventures of Telemachus 6: Odysseus' Travels 7: Odysseus on Ithaca 8: The Human World 9: Women in the Odyssey 10: The World of the Gods 11: The Ideology of the Odyssey Conclusion Bibliography

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• Authors: Suzanne Said, Suzanne (Professor of Classics at Columbia University Said, Suzanne/ Webb Said, Suzanne Saïd
• Assisted by: Ruth Webb (Translation), Ruth (Professor of Greek Webb (Translation), Webb Ruth (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2011
• EAN: 9780199542840
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954284-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory