SIMON GOLDHILL is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Academy. His books have been translated into twelve languages and won three international prizes. He has lectured and broadcast on radio and television all over the world. His most recent book is The Christian Invention of Time (Cambridge, 2022).
Introduction
1. The poet hero: language and representation in the Odyssey
2. Imitations of immortality: fame and tradition from Homer to Pindar
3. Comic inversion and inverted commas: Aristophanes and parody
4. Framing, polyphony and desire: Theocritus and Hellenistic poetics
5. The paradigms of epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the example of the past
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