Jonathan S. Burgess

Homer

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What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central paradox of 'Homer' is that- while recognized as producing poetry of incomparable genius- even in the ancien world nobody knew who he was. As a result, the myth-maker became the subject of myth. For the satirist Lucian (c.125-180 CE) he ws a captive Babylonian. Other traditions have Homer born in Smyrna, or on the island of Chios, or portray him as a blind and wandering minstrel. In his new and authoritative introduction, Jonathan S. Burgess addresses f… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-85773-514-0
EAN: 9780857735140
Produktnummer: 22570701
Verlag: I.B.Tauris
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'557 KB

Über den Autor

Jonathan S Burgess is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer (2001, paperback 2004) and the Epic Cycle and The Death and Afterlife of Achilles (2009).