Barbara Graziosi (University of Durham)

Inventing Homer

The Early Reception of Epic
Herausgeber: Hunter, R. Lanny; Osborne, R. G.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book examines stories about this elusive figure that circulated between the sixth and fourth centuries BC, and attempts to explore the ancient reception of the Homeric poems and to look at it in relation to modern conceptions and approaches.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Classical Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780521809665
• ISBN-10: 0521809665
• Artikelnr.: 21732915

Autorenporträt

Barbara Graziosi is currently Lecturer in Greek at the University of Reading. She was educated in Trieste, Oxford and Cambridge and in 1999-2000 held a Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford. Her doctoral thesis, on which the present book is based, has been shortlisted for the Hellenic Foundation's Annual Prize for the best doctoral thesis.

Inhaltsangabe

Frontispiece
Preface
List of abbreviations of editions and works of reference
Introduction
1. The birth of Homer
2. Homer's name and his place of origin
3. The date of Homer
4. Blindness, poverty and closeness to the gods
5. Homer's relationship to other poets
6. The heirs of Homer
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of passages
General index.