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Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern

Author : Robert J. Rabel
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781914535000

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Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern by Robert J. Rabel Pdf

Ten new essays, from a distinguished cast of (mainly) North American scholars, approach Homer with insights gained from the modern disciplines of psychology and anthropology, narratology, oral theory and cognitive research. But the contributors also attend to ancient modes of approach to the Homeric poems: linguistic and narratological, ethical and psyhological. The volume focuses both on literary technique in the poems, and on the portrayal of characters and peoples, central and marginal.

Approaches to Homer

Author : Carl A. Rubino,Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292767874

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Approaches to Homer by Carl A. Rubino,Cynthia W. Shelmerdine Pdf

Modern Homeric scholarship is distinguished by a dazzling diversity of approaches. That diversity is brilliantly displayed in this volume, in which nine well-known classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history. Several essays are primarily concerned with what the Homeric poems teach us about the past. Richard Hope Simpson, for example, reviews the controversy sparked by his and John F. Lazenby's 1970 argument that the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad accurately reflects the geography of Mycenean Greece. Using archaeology as just one of his starting points, Gregory Nagy reflects upon the death and funeral of Sarpedon as described in the Iliad. Our understanding of the word áté is enhanced by E. D. Francis, who closely examines its prehistory. Norman Austin's elegant and original discussion of tone in the Odyssey's Cyclops tale is animated by both psychoanalytic theory and his work with two practitioners of optometric visual training. Writing of Odysseus, James M. Redfield dubs that hero "the economic man" and links certain tensions in the Odyssey to the actual economic concerns of Greece in the late eighth century BC. Both Ann L. T. Bergren and Mabel L. Lang concern themselves with problems of narrative in the Homeric epics. Like Hope Simpson, C. J. Rowe updates a controversy—in this instance, the many objections raised to Arthur Adkins' influential 1960 study of moral values in Homer. Gareth Morgan provides a fascinating glimpse of the Homeric scholarship of another day by focusing on the work of the astonishing John Tzetzes in twelfth-century Byzantium.

Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

Author : Κώστας Μυρσιάδης
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : 1433108852

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Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey by Κώστας Μυρσιάδης Pdf

Approaches to Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' consists of ten original essays on the Iliad and Odyssey by established Homeric scholars and university professors of Greek literature and culture. The anthology offers not only fresh approaches to reading, appreciating, and understanding these Homeric epics, but also attempts to make a case why these works are still relevant in the twenty-first century. Both epics are required reading in most college/university general and world literature courses, as is evident from their inclusion in part or in whole in many standard world literature anthologies. These ten new approaches to the first literary works of Western culture are intended as reading aids for both instructors and students in any college/university classroom in which either of these two Homeric epics are taught.

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0873525000

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Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey by Modern Language Association of America Pdf

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A New Companion to Homer

Author : Ian Morris,Barry B. Powell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004099891

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A New Companion to Homer by Ian Morris,Barry B. Powell Pdf

This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields comprehensively. Thirty leading scholars from Europe and America provide short, authoritative overviews of the state of knowledge and current controversies in the many specialist divisions in Homeric studies. The chapters pay equal attention to literary, mythological, linguistic, historical, and archaeological topics, ranging from such long-established problems as the "Homeric Question" to newer issues like the relevance of narratology and computer-assisted quantification. The collection, the third publication in Brill's handbook series, "The Classical Tradition," will be valuable at every level of study - from the general student of literature to the Homeric specialist seeking a general understanding of the latest developments across the whole range of Homeric scholarship.

The Cambridge Guide to Homer

Author : Corinne Ondine Pache
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1107027195

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The Cambridge Guide to Homer by Corinne Ondine Pache Pdf

From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.

The Measure of Homer

Author : Richard Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108428316

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The Measure of Homer by Richard Hunter Pdf

Placing homer -- Homer and the divine -- The golden verses -- Homer among the scholars -- The pleasures of song

The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark

Author : Dennis Ronald MacDonald,Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Dennis R MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300080123

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The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark by Dennis Ronald MacDonald,Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Dennis R MacDonald Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history, nor was he merely recording tradition, MacDonald argues. Close reading and careful analysis show that Mark borrowed extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and that he wanted his readers to recognise the Homeric antecedents in Mark's story of Jesus. Mark was composing a prose anti-epic, MacDonald says, presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes. Much like Odysseus, Mark's Jesus sails the seas with uncomprehending companions, encounters preternatural opponents, and suffers many things before confronting rivals who have made his house a den of thieves. In his death and burial, Jesus emulates Hector, although unlike Hector Jesus leaves his tomb empty. Mark's minor characters, too, recall Homeric predecessors: Bartimaeus emulates Tiresias; Joseph of Arimathea, Priam; and the women at the tomb, Helen, Hecuba, and Andromache. And, entire episodes in Mark mirror Homeric episodes, including stilling the sea, walking on water, feeding the multitudes, the Triumphal E

Nine Essays on Homer

Author : Miriam Carlisle,Olga Levaniouk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0847694240

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Nine Essays on Homer by Miriam Carlisle,Olga Levaniouk Pdf

The essays in this collection addresses questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women's laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological balance of epic can change and be influenced by 'alternative ideologies' introduced through the incorporation of new material; the implications of the continuity of tradition for etymological studies; and how the traditional nature of epic affects textual criticism. The essays differ in focus and method, but all share one fundamental approach to Homer: an understanding of the Homeric tradition as a poetic system that expresses and preserves what is culturally important and a view of the Homeric epics as instances of a cultural tradition which they attempt to explore through the epics themselves and through the comparative, anthropological, and linguistic evidence they bring to bear on these texts. A unique collection that explores Homeric poetry through a variety of tools and approaches--linguistics, philology, cultural anthropology, sociology, textual criticism, and archeology--this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of oral poetry and Classical literature.

Rediscovering Homer

Author : Andrew Dalby
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393330192

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Rediscovering Homer by Andrew Dalby Pdf

A literary portrait of the epic songwriter and poet traces the historical origins of the Odyssey and the Iliad, describing the culture that shaped their first-generation audiences while exploring theories about how both poems were written by a single, female poet. Reprint.

The Artistry of the Homeric Simile

Author : William C. Scott
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611682298

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The Artistry of the Homeric Simile by William C. Scott Pdf

An examination of the aesthetic qualities of the Homeric simile

Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press

Author : David Tatham
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815629745

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Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press by David Tatham Pdf

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), arguably the best-known American artist of the nineteenth century, created three distinctly different bodies of work in the course of his long career: paintings, book illustrations, and illustrations for the pictorial press, the magazine-like illustrated journals of his day. A number of books and exhibition catalogues have dealt with his career as a painter, and historian David Tatham treated all of Homer's work as an illustrator of literature in his Winslow Homer and the Illustrated Book. Now, ten years later, Tatham has completed a full, scholarly account of Homer's work for pictorial magazines such as Harper's Weekly, Appleton's Monthly, and Every Saturday. Homer's work for pictorial magazines is substantial, to say the least. It amounts to some 250 wood-engraved images published between 1857 and 1875. These wood engravings are collected assiduously and are exhibited frequently in museums. They differ from Homer's book illustrations in that they are independent from the texts; Homer chose and treated the great majority of his magazine subjects much as he did his paintings. They are, in essence, original works of graphic art. The illustrations reproduced here cover a remarkable range. They constitute the first substantial body of American art about the life of the city streets, the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, abolition, and the New Woman. They include compelling treatments of the Civil War, rural childhood, and wilderness. They also comprise an essential contribution to the study of one of the masters of American art.

Homer and the Odyssey

Author : Suzanne Saïd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199542840

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Homer and the Odyssey by Suzanne Saïd Pdf

With an introduction to the oral tradition which lay at the source of the Homeric epics and a discussion on the reception of the Homeric poems in Antiquity, this volume explores the mysterious figure of Homer, an author about whom little is known. Ruth Webb's translation is a revised and much expanded version of the original French text.

Homer's 'Odyssey'

Author : Henry Power
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748688968

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Homer's 'Odyssey' by Henry Power Pdf

A fresh and exciting approach to this great work of classical literature, which brings it alive for today's students and gives them the tools to appreciate and explore the work themselves.

Reading Homer's Iliad

Author : Kostas Myrsiades
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684484508

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Reading Homer's Iliad by Kostas Myrsiades Pdf

We still read Homer’s epic the Iliad two-and-one-half millennia since its emergence for the questions it poses and the answers it provides for our age, as viable today as they were in Homer’s own times. What is worth dying for? What is the meaning of honor and fame? What are the consequences of intense emotion and violence? What does recognition of one’s mortality teach? We also turn to Homer’s Iliad in the twenty-first century for the poet’s preoccupation with the essence of human life. His emphasis on human understanding of mortality, his celebration of the human mind, and his focus on human striving after consciousness and identity has led audiences to this epic generation after generation. This study is a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s 24 parts, meant to inform students new to the work. Endnotes clarify and elaborate on myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Iliad, in addition to bibliographies accompanying each book’s commentary.