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9780631233855

Homer

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631233855

  • ISBN10:

    0631233857

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-10-01
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

This concise book is an ideal introduction to Homer - the poet and his two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Student-friendly introduction to Homer. Provides historical background and literary readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Makes use of the author's own original research. Assumes no prior knowledge of Greek.

Author Biography

Barry B. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Table of Contents

Preface viii
Chronological Chart x
Maps
xiii
Introduction xv
Part I Background
1(62)
The Philologist's Homer
3(32)
The Historian's Homer
35(16)
The Reader's Homer
51(12)
Part II The Poems
63(99)
The Iliad
65(49)
The Odyssey
114(41)
Conclusion and Summary
155(7)
Notes 162(2)
Further Reading 164(9)
Index 173

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