The Poetry of Homer Edited with an Introduction by Bruce Heiden

by Bassett, S. E.; Heiden, Bruce; Nagy, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780739106952
• ISBN10: 0739106953
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-09
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

S.E. Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer investigates the rhetorical techniques that enable the Iliad and the Odyssey speak to both ancient and modern audiences. Somewhat neglected in the decades after its posthumous publication in 1938, it has become an immensely influential work and has left its mark on a generation of Classicists.

Author Biography

Samuel Eliot Bassett was professor at the University of Vermont from 1905 until his death in 1936.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION	vii
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION	ix
INTRODUCTION	xi
EDITOR'S NOTE	xxxi
I. AN IMPORTANT HOMERIC PROBLEM AND ITS POSTULATES	1	(25)
II. THE EPIC ILLUSION	26	(31)
III. THE EPIC ILLUSION (Continued)	57	(24)
IV. THE BREAKING OF THE EPIC ILLUSION	81	(33)
V. THE POET AND HIS AUDIENCE	114	(27)
VI. THE POET AS SINGER	141	(32)
VII. HOMER THE POETIC DEMIURGE	173	(54)
VIII. THE POET AS REALIST AND AS IDEALIST	227	(20)
NOTES	247	(14)
INDEX	261