Homer and the Epic Cycle

How can the ancient relationship between Homer and the Epic Cycle be recovered? Using the most significant research in the field, Andrew Porter questions many ancient and modern assumptions and offers alternative perspectives better aligned with ancient epic performance realities and modern epic studies.

About the author

Andrew Porter is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer (Harvard CHS, 2019).

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Porter
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.2022
• EAN: 9789004455481
• ISBN: 978-90-04-45548-1
• No. of pages: 132
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 195 g
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity