Title:
Rediscovering Homer : inside the origins of the epic
Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
2006
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 266 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780393057881
Contents:
1: The poems -- Oral poetry in early Greece -- The Iliad and history -- The Odyssey and society -- 2: The making of the Iliad -- From Iliad to Odyssey -- Identifying the poet -- 3: From oral epic to written classic -- The rediscovery of orality -- Reading the Iliad and the Odyssey afresh.
Language:
English
