Kostas Myrsiades

Broschiertes Buch

Reading Homer's Iliad

Beschreibung

Reading Homer’s "Iliad" is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s major themes, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes elaborate on myths Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume includes a general bibliography, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.

Autor

KOSTAS MYRSIADES, professor emeritus of Greek and comparative literature at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, is a distinguished translator and Hellenist and the recipient of the Gold Medallion (1995) from Greece's Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature. He is the author and/or translator of 22 books, articles, and invited lectures on Greek literature and culture, including Reading Homer's "Odyssey" (Bucknell University Press). For twenty-two years (1990-2012) he edited College Literature, a quarterly of literary criticism and theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781684484485
• ISBN-10: 1684484480
• Artikelnr.: 63435401