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A Narratological Commentary on the Odysseyby Irene de Jong
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 58.00This narratological commentary discusses the narrative techniques, including speeches, type-scenes, themes, and motifs, of the Odyssey. Bringing together the insights into Homeric poetics gained through centuries of scholarship, it permits users to gain an in-depth insight into the workings of Homer's brilliant narrative artistry. more...
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homerby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 5.99Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any chapter from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. This e-book introduces: Full text of The Iliad and The Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler (1835-1902). Homer?s biography. Historical and geographical background of Ancient Greece that helps to understand the period of time described in the epic poems. Timeline. Maps. Epic poems? Summaries. Description of key themes and characters of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Table of Contents. Translated by Samuel Butler (1835-1902). Electronic Edition by MobileReference. The Iliad: -I- | -II- | -III- | -IV- | -V- | -VI- | -VII- | -VIII- | -IX- | -X- | -XI- | -XII- | -XIII- | -XIV- | -XV- | -XVI- | -XVII-... more...
Homer in the Twentieth Centuryby Barbara Graziosi; Emily Greenwood
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 125.00A collection of essays exploring the crucial place of Homer in the cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It contributes to current debates about the nature of the Western literary canon, the evolving notion of world literature, the relationship between orality and the written word, and the dialogue between texts across time and space. - ;This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It argues that Homer was viewed both as the founding father of the Western literary canon and as sharing important features with poems, performances, and traditions which were often deemed neither literary nor Western: the epics of Yugoslavia and sub-Saharan Africa, the keening performances... more...
Homeric Voicesby Elizabeth Minchin
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 133.65Drawing on the disciplines of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and cognitive psychology, Elizabeth Minchin studies the speeches that Homer attributes to his characters. She describes how the poet may have used his memory for everyday talk to construct such speeches, and examines how they reflect the speaker's age, status, and gender. - ;Homeric Voices is a study, from a compositional point of view, of the substantial speeches and exchanges of speech that Homer depicts in his songs. Drawing on research in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and cognitive psychology, Elizabeth Minchin considers the words that Homer attributes to his characters from two perspectives, as cognitive and as social phenomena. She asks how the poet worked... more...
Thomas Hobbesby Eric Nelson
Oxford University Press, UK 2008; US$ 250.00Eric Nelson presents the first critical edition of the translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey composed by the great seventeenth-century philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes. Nelson shows that these translations are not only of great literary interest but offer special insights into Hobbes's own thought. - ;This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, edited by Eric Nelson. Hobbes translated the Homeric poems into English verse during the course of the 1670s, when he was already well into his eighties. These texts constitute his most extensive single undertaking, as well as his last major work. Yet, despite the explosion of interest in Hobbes... more...
Homers Ilias, Band IVby Magdalene Stoevesandt; Joachim Latacz; Anton Bierl
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 109.00This commentary on the 6th book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of two episodes which have received a great deal of scholarly attention: the encounter between Diomedes and Glaukos, which surprisingly ends with an exchange of weapons and not a duel, and the series of scenes Hector in Troy, which reveal the heros conflicting roles as defender of the city and father of his family. more...
Homers Ilias, Band IVby Joachim Latacz; Anton Bierl
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 42.00Since Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868-1913) no comprehensive, scholarly commentary of Homers Iliad has been published in German. In the meantime considerable progress has been made in many traditional areas of Homeric studies (language, realia, structure etc.). In addition, generally acknowledged new fields such as narratology have been systematically studied. Furthermore, the knowledge of the Mycenaean language (Linear B) and oral poetry provide completely new possibilities of textual constitution and analysis. Using the old Ameis-Hentze-Cauer as a starting point, the new commentary reflects the current scholarship on Homer in a comprehensive way. As a new standard work, the Basel Commentary of the Iliad has received considerable... more...
Kommentarby Joachim Latacz; René Nünlist; Magdalene Stoevesandt; Claude Brügger; Rudolf Führer; Fritz Graf; Irene de Jong; Michael Meier-Brügger; Sebastiaan van der Mije; Rolf Stucky; Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg; Rudolf Wachter; Martin L. West
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 126.00The Basle complete commentary on Homer's Iliad is widely used internationally, both in research and teaching. The second, revised edition of the commentary on Book 1 (vol. 1, 2002) having been out of print for some months, a third revised edition is now available. more...
The Bow and the Lyreby Seth Benardete
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2008; US$ 25.99In this interpretation of the Odyssey, Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings. more...
Homer the Theologianby Robert Lamberton
University of California Press 1989; US$ 28.95Here 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. more...









