Egbert Bakker

Gebundenes Buch

The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey

Beschreibung

A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat.

Autor

Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University, Connecticut. Within the wider area of the interaction between linguistic analysis and literary interpretation he works mainly on the language, poetics and interpretation of the Homeric poems. He has lectured and published widely on both linguistic and literary subjects. Among his publications are Linguistics and Formulas in Homer (1988), Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997) and Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics (2005). He has co-edited Brill's Companion to Herodotus (2002) and is the editor of A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language (2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9780521111201
• ISBN-10: 052111120X
• Artikelnr.: 36773626