Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

by Barbara Graziosi

• ISBN13: 9780521038133
• ISBN10: 0521038138
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book looks at stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth, name and origin, blindness and his relationship to other poets and his descendants. The work studies the ancient reception of the Homeric poems, and looks at it in relation to modern representations of Homer, ancient and modern conceptions of authorship, and the "Homeric Question".

Table of Contents

Frontispiece

Preface

List of abbreviations of editions and works of reference

Introduction

The birth of Homer

Homer-s name and his place of origin

The date of Homer

Blindness, poverty and closeness to the gods

Homer-s relationship to other poets

The heirs of Homer

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of passages

General index

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