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A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 2
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2013; US$ 17.95This text is a continuation of "A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 1" and focuses on The Odyssey, Books 6 and 12. It includes lessons in Greek grammar and vocabulary with brief literary and analytical "thematic essays" to accompany the readings. more...
A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 1
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2013; US$ 23.95A revised edition of a classic text by R. V. Schoder, S.J. and V.C. Horrigan, S.J. that provides an introduction to Ancient Greek as found in the Greek language of Homer. 120 lessons with notes, commentary and exercises; readings from Homer begin after the first 10 lessons in the book. more...
The Homeric Hymns
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2012; US$ 6.95This is a collection of standard texts of ancient Greek that are important components of what we know about Greek myth, religion, language and culture. It includes ample notes and introductions to provide information on the works' historic importance. more...
Odyssea Homeri a Francisco Griffolino Aretino in Latinum translata
BRILL 2011; US$ 176.00This edition offers a critical text of the Latin prose translation of the Odyssey of Homer, made in about 1462 by Francesco Griffolini at the behest of Pope Pius II. The comprehensive introduction provides information about the life and work of the author, examines his method of translation and clarifies the manuscript transmission of the text. more...
The Odyssey
Oxford University Press, UK 1980; US$ 8.99The first English prose translation of Homer's The Odyssey to appear in over thirty years, Shewring's translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow. more...
Homer-Handbuch
J.B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2011; US$ 64.65Hauptbeschreibung Homers Epen "Ilias" und "Odyssee" stehen am Anfang der abendländischen Schriftkultur. Ihre Wirkung auf die Literaturen Europas ist unschätzbar. Das Handbuch fasst den aktuellen Forschungsstand zusammen, gibt einen Einblick in die historischen und kulturellen Hintergründe und untersucht die bis heute andauernden literarischen Nachwirkungen... more...
Homer the Preclassic
University of California Press 2012; US$ 60.00Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey -during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival ?Homers? and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, reconstructed over a time frame extending back from... more...
Omero e i suoi oratori
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 154.00The birth of rhetoric istraced back to the 5th century B.C.E., when the first theoretical treatises on rhetoric were drafted. As early as in the speeches of the Iliad however, one canrecognize a deliberate and thoughtful use of refined rhetorical techniques, although these techniques were only codified at a much later date. The Homeric orators thus... more...
The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes"
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 182.00This volume offers a detailed philological commentary on the longest of the Homeric Hymns. The commentary is preceded by a lengthy introduction addressing the Hymn?s ideas on poetry and music, its humorous aspects, the poem?s relation to the rest of archaic hexameter literature, its reception in later literature, its structure, date and place of composition,... more...
Homer, gedeutet durch ein großes Lexikon
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 168.00The ?Lexicon of Early Greek Epic? is now complete after half a century of philological work. It offers a host of information concerning the entire range of Early Greek vocabulary, as used by Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and the so-called ?small epics.? The first entry was made in 1955; the last in 2010. This volume, which marks the conclusion... more...









