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9781405153256

Homer

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405153256

  • ISBN10:

    1405153253

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-04-30
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Updated and expanded, this new edition is a complete and contemporary introduction to the poet, Homer, and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Author Biography

Barry B. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His previous publications include Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1991), A Short Introduction to Classical Myth (2001), Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature (2002), Classical Myth (fourth edition, 2004), and The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society (with Ian Morris, 2005).

Table of Contents

Chronological Chart
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Background
The Philologist 's Homer
The Historian 's Homer
The Reader 's Homer
The Poems
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Conclusion and Summary: Homer's Complementary Poems
Reception
Homer and The Philosophers
Homer and The Poets
Notes
Appendix: For Further Reading
Index
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