Homer And The Sacred City

Author : Stephen Scully
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer and the Sacred City written by Stephen Scully and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the Iliad, as well as the collision of the individual fates of its characters, which generates its most profound tragic themes.

Author : Stephen Scully
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer and the Sacred City written by Stephen Scully and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the Iliad, as well as the collision of the individual fates of its characters, which generates its most profound tragic themes.

Author : Jane B. Carter
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292733763
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ages of Homer written by Jane B. Carter and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey have fascinated listeners and readers for over twenty-five centuries. In this volume of original essays, collected to honor the distinguished career of Emily T. Vermeule, thirty-four leading experts in Homeric studies and related fields provide up-to-date, multidisciplinary accounts of the most current issues in the study of Homer. The book is divided into three sections. The first section treats the Bronze Age setting of the poems (around 1200 B.C.), using archaeological evidence to reveal how poetic memory preserves, distorts, and invents the past. The second section explores the early Iron Age, in which the poems were written (c. 800-500 B.C.), using the strategies of comparative philology and mythology, literary theory, historical linguistics, anthropology, and iconography to determine how the poems took shape. The final section traces the use of Homer for literary and artistic inspiration by classical Greece and Rome.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521878845
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer: Iliad Book VI written by Homer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first commentary in English entirely devoted to the Iliad Book 6, illuminating some of the best-loved episodes in the whole poem.

Author : Barbara Graziosi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316139433
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer: Iliad Book VI written by Barbara Graziosi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth book of the Iliad includes some of the most memorable and best-loved episodes in the whole poem: it holds meaning and interest for many different people, not just students of ancient Greek. Book 6 describes how Glaukos and Diomedes, though fighting on opposite sides, recognise an ancient bond of hospitality and exchange gifts on the battlefield. It then follows Hector as he enters the city of Troy and meets the most important people in his life: his mother, Helen and Paris, and finally his wife and baby son. It is above all through the loving and fraught encounter between Hector and Andromache that Homer exposes the horror of war. This edition is suitable for undergraduates at all levels, and students in the upper forms of schools. The Introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and is intended for all readers interested in Homer.

Author : Irene J. F. de Jong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415145299
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer: The Homeric world written by Irene J. F. de Jong and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johannes Haubold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521770095
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer's People written by Johannes Haubold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to examine the role and character of Homer's people in Homeric story-telling.

Author : Ruth Scodel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472033743
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listening to Homer written by Ruth Scodel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds /div

Author : Homer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226470385
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iliad of Homer written by Homer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book. The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived—and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.

Author : Claude Brügger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501504290
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer’s Iliad written by Claude Brügger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into traditional areas of Homeric scholarship (e.g., language, the structure of the text, etc.) has come a long way since the last comprehensive commentaries on the Iliad were carried out, that is, the commentary by Ameis-Hentze in German language in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century as well as the Cambridge commentary by Kirk et. al. in English language in the 1980/90s. Much of this kind of research is now set upon a much surer methodological and theoretical foundation. Developments in the field of Mycenology and in the study of Linear B, oral poetry, and the history of ancient Troy in particular, have made possible a number of new insights and interpretive possibilities in Homer’s epic. Moreover, modern secondary literature of all major languages has been systematically covered. The "Basel Commentary" to the Iliad is a new, up-to-date, standard work that addresses these issues directly and will be of interest to scholars, teachers, and students alike. Central to the commentary on Iliad 24 is the interpretation of one of the most exciting and most moving scenes of the Iliad: how Priam, the king of Troy, makes his way to his mortal enemy Achilles, by whose hand his son Hector had fallen; how the god Hermes leads the old man almost magically into the army camp of the Greeks; how Achilles, at the end of an emotional encounter with Priam, leaves the body of Hector for burial.