Barbara Graziosi (Durham University Professor of Classics)

Broschiertes Buch

Homer

A Very Short Introduction

Beschreibung

The Iliad and the Odyssey are the cornerstones of Western literature, inspiring artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, playwrights, and film-makers throughout history. Barbara Graziosi introduces Homer's key works and discusses the main literary, historical, and archaeological issues at the heart of Homeric studies.

Autor

Professor Barbara Graziosi teaches classics at Durham University. She is the author of Inventing Homer (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and together with Johannes Haubold she wrote Homer: The Resonance of Epic (Duckworth, 2005), and completed a commentary on Iliad 6 for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Cambridge University press, 2010). Together with Emily Greenwood she edited Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (Oxford University Press, 2007), and she co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009), along with George Boys-Stones and Phiroze Vasunia.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 111mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9780199589944
• ISBN-10: 0199589941
• Artikelnr.: 53776985