The Cambridge Companion to Homer (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521012465 ISBN 13: 9780521012461

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The two Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, have long been considered masterpieces, and their influence on subsequent Greek and Western literature has been immense. An international team of experts discusses the poems, their background and composition, and subsequent reception to the present day. Each chapter features contemporary critical insights and closes with a guide to further reading on the topic.

About this title

Book Description:

Ever since antiquity the two Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, have been considered to be masterpieces, and their influence on subsequent Greek and Western literature has been immeasurable. In this volume an international team of experts discusses the poems, their background and composition, and, most originally, their subsequent reception down to the present day. Each chapter communicates the best of contemporary scholarship and offer new critical insights of its own, and closes with a guide to further reading on the topic.

About the Author:

Robert Fowler is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol. He is the author of The Nature of the Early Greek Lyric (1987). He has also edited Early Greek Mythology, Volume 1 (2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521012465
• ISBN 13: 9780521012461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444
• Editor: Fowler Robert