Reading Homer

Author : Kostas Myrsiades
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684481323

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Reading Homer’s Odyssey by Kostas Myrsiades Pdf

Finalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer’s Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities and schools, and to be read and referred to by ordinary readers. Reading Homer’s Odyssey offers a book-by-book commentary on the epic’s themes that informs the non-specialist and engages the seasoned reader in new perspectives. Among the themes discussed are hospitality, survival, wealth, reputation and immortality, the Olympian gods, self-reliance and community, civility, behavior, etiquette and technology, ease, inactivity and stagnation, Penelope’s relationship with Odysseus, Telemachus’ journey, Odysseus’ rejection of Calypso’s offer of immortality, Odysseus’ lies, Homer’s use of the House of Atreus and other myths, the cinematic qualities of the epic’s structure, women’s role in the epic, and the Odyssey’s true ending. Footnotes clarify and elaborate upon myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Odyssey, in addition to the bibliographies that accompany each book’s commentary. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Homer,Alexandros Palles
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0530897423

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The Twenty-Second Book of the Iliad by Homer,Alexandros Palles Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Malcolm M. Willcock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226125848

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A Companion to The Iliad by Malcolm M. Willcock Pdf

Those who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well served—the many available translations contain few, if any, notes. For these readers, Malcolm M. Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains the many factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad. The notes, which always relate to particular lines in the text, have as their prime aim the simple, factual explanation of things the inexperienced reader would be unlikely to have at his or her command (What is a hecatomb? Who is Atreus' son?). Second, they enhance an appreciation of the Iliad by illuminating epic style, Homer's methods of composition, the structure of the work, and the characterization of the major heroes. The "Homeric Question," concerning the origin and authorship of the Iliad, is also discussed. Professor Willcock's commentary is based on Richmond Lattimore's translation—regarded by many as the outstanding translation of the present generation—but it may be used profitably with other versions as well. This clearly written commentary, which includes an excellent select bibliography, will make one of the touchstones of Western literature accessible to a wider audience.

Author : Frank Beetham
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015049678025

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Beginning Greek with Homer by Frank Beetham Pdf

This introduction to Homer assumes no prior knowledge of Greek. The first six sections deal with the elements of grammar that are a necessary preliminary to study. From the seventh section onwards the course proceeds through the "Odyssey", Book Five, with grammatical explanations and exercises.

Author : Pamela Ann Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature
ISBN : 0472071920

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An Odyssey Reader by Pamela Ann Draper Pdf

A user-friendly edition for the student reading Homer in the original Greek

Author : Homer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627931458

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The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer Pdf

The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion picture Helen of Troy staring Brad Pitt proves that this epic is as relevant today as it was twenty five hundred years ago when it was first written. So journey back to the Trojan War with Homer and relive the grandest adventure of all times. The Odyssey: Journey with Ulysses as he battles to bring his victorious, but decimated, troops home from the Trojan War, dogged by the wrath of the god Poseidon at every turn. Having been away for twenty years, little does he know what awaits him when he finally makes his way home. These two books are some of the most import books in the literary cannon, having influenced virtually every adventure tale ever told. And yet they are still accessible and immediate and now you can have both in one binding.

Author : George Herbert Palmer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1015503063

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The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by George Herbert Palmer by George Herbert Palmer Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198788800

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Odyssey by Homer Pdf

Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.

Author : Howard W. Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002654957

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Homer's Readers by Howard W. Clarke Pdf

Author : Robert Lamberton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520066076

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Homer the Theologian by Robert Lamberton Pdf

Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nature of European epic. The Neoplatonist reading was to be decisive in the birth of allegorical epic in late antiquity and forms the background for the next major extension of the epic tradition found in Dante.

Author : Robert Lamberton,John J. Keaney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691604176

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Homer's Ancient Readers by Robert Lamberton,John J. Keaney Pdf

Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven essays explore the ways in which the Illiad and the Odyssey have been read from the time of Homer through the Renaissance. By asking what questions early readers expected the texts to answer and looking at how these expectations changed over time, the authors clarify the position of the Illiad and the Odyssey in the intellectual world of antiqueity while offering historical insight into the nature of reading. The collection surveys the entire field of preserved ancient interpretations of Homer, beginning with the fictional audiences portrayed within the poems themselves, proceedings to readings by Aristotle, the Stoics, and Aristarchus and Crates, and culminating in the spritiualized allegorical reading current among Platonists of the fifth and sixth centuries C.E. The influence of these ancient interpretations is then examined in Byzantium and in the Latin West during the Renaissance. Contributors to this volume are Robert Browning, Anthony Grafton, Robert Lamberton, A.A. Long, James Porter, Nicholas Richardson, and Charles Segal. Robert Lamberton is Assistant Professor of Classics and John J. Keaney is Professor of Classics, both at Princeton University. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Clyde Pharr
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0806119373

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Homeric Greek by Clyde Pharr Pdf

For many years, Homeric Greek has been a standard textbook for first-year Greek courses in college and preparatory schools. This fourth edition addresses the needs of today's teachers and students, while retaining those elements of the original book responsible for its longevity.

Author : Raymond V. Schoder,Vincent C. Horrigan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781585107049

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A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 1 by Raymond V. Schoder,Vincent C. Horrigan Pdf

A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book One, Third Edition is a revised edition of the well respected text by Frs. Schoder and Horrigan. This text provides an introduction to Ancient Greek language as found in the Greek of Homer. Covering 120 lessons, readings from Homer begin after the first 10 lessons in the book. Honor work, appendices, and vocabularies are included, along with review exercises for each chapter with answers.

Author : Kostas Myrsiades
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838642191

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Reading Homer by Kostas Myrsiades Pdf

These nine new essays on Homer's epics deal not only with major Homeric themes of time (honor), kleos (fame), geras (rewards), the psychology of Homeric warriors, and the re-evaluation of type scenes, but also with Homer's influence on contemporary film. Following the introduction and an essay which sets the historical background for the epics, four essays are devoted to fresh analysis of key passages and themes while another four turn to a discussion of the film Troy and Homer's influence on two other genres of American cinema.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1080885833

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The Iliad Or The Poem of Force by Simone Weil Pdf