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1 online resource (225 pages). |
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Guides for the Perplexed |
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Guides for the perplexed.
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The figures of Homeric poetry; A beginning for all time; Many Homers; The 'project' of Homeric poetry; The materiality of Homer; 2 Homeric histories; The necessity of history; The Trojan War and the ancients; Troy, the Bronze Age and modern studies; The representation of culture and society; Homer's historical voices; 3 The poet and the making of the poem; The biographical figure in antiquity and in the poems; Homer and the moderns: The first steps; Analysts and Unitarians; Milman Parry and oral-formulaic theory. |
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4 Homer's poetic languagePoetic style and oral style; Rhythm and music; Repetition and poetic style; Typical scenes; Ring composition; Metaphor and simile; 5 Proems, tales and plots; The proems; Retelling the story of the past; Outlines and plot structures; 6 The Iliad; The withdrawal of Achilles, prizes and fame; Achilles' dilemma and the death of Patroclus; The end of the quarrel, the death of Hector, the ransom of his body and the end of the poem; 7 The Odyssey; The opening books of the Odyssey and the Telemachy; Odysseus' journeys: Calypso, the Phaeacians and the Apologue. |
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The return to IthacaThe end of the poem; 8 Boundaries and social worlds: Men and women; Gender divisions; Actions and roles; Shifting borders; 9 Mortality and the divine; Gods; Belief and religion; Divine action; Divine guidance, moral responsibility and fate; Envoi; Suggestions for further reading; Translations; General reference books on Homer; Detailed commentaries on Homer; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Homeric Characters; Index of Selected Greek words and Homeric expressions and phrases. |
| Summary |
Homer?s poetry is widely recognized as the beginning of the literary tradition of the West and among its most influential canonical texts. Outlining a series of key themes, ideas, and values associated with Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed explores the question of the formation of the Iliad and the Odyssey - the so-called?Homeric Problem?. Among the main Homeric themes which the book considers are origin and form, orality and composition, heroic values, social structure, and social bias, gender roles and gendered interpretation, ethnicity, representations of religion. |
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Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Homer.
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Homer. (OCoLC)fst00029137
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kahane, Ahuvia. Homer : A Guide for the Perplexed. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2012 9781441100108 |
| ISBN |
9781441189264 (electronic bk.) |
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1441189262 (electronic bk.) |
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1441173064 (electronic bk.) |
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9781441173065 (electronic bk.) |
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