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Book Synopsis Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer by : Plutarch
Download or read book Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the history and interpretation of Homer. Although attributed to Plutarch, the Essay is probably the work of a grammaticus of the second and thirdcentury and is the single most valuable source of evidence for the nature of the teaching of Homer in the schools of the Roman Empire. Well represented in the manuscript tradition, the Essay was used as prefatory material by Renaissance editors of Homer, beginning with the editio princeps (1488), and so exercised a powerful influence on Renaissance and early-modern readers, who often refer to "Plutarch" as an authority on Homer. The newly edited Greek text is presented with facing translation.
Book Synopsis Nine Essays on Homer by : Miriam Carlisle
Download or read book Nine Essays on Homer written by Miriam Carlisle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection addresses questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women's laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological balance of epic can change and be influenced by 'alternative ideologies' introduced through the incorporation of new material; the implications of the continuity of tradition for etymological studies; and how the traditional nature of epic affects textual criticism. The essays differ in focus and method, but all share one fundamental approach to Homer: an understanding of the Homeric tradition as a poetic system that expresses and preserves what is culturally important and a view of the Homeric epics as instances of a cultural tradition which they attempt to explore through the epics themselves and through the comparative, anthropological, and linguistic evidence they bring to bear on these texts. A unique collection that explores Homeric poetry through a variety of tools and approaches--linguistics, philology, cultural anthropology, sociology, textual criticism, and archeology--this volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of oral poetry and Classical literature.
Book Synopsis An essay on the original genius of Homer by : Robert Wood
Download or read book An essay on the original genius of Homer written by Robert Wood and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 1769 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer by : Robert Wood
Download or read book An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer written by Robert Wood and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer .. by : Robert ?- Wood
Download or read book An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer .. written by Robert ?- Wood and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work, Robert Wood challenges the prevailing view of Homer as a primitive and uneducated bard and presents him as a learned poet, deeply engaged with the literary and cultural traditions of his time. Drawing on extensive scholarship and a close reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Wood offers a comprehensive picture of Homer's life, art, and legacy. 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.
Book Synopsis “An” Essay On The Original Genius and Writings of Homer by : Robert Wood
Download or read book “An” Essay On The Original Genius and Writings of Homer written by Robert Wood and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Homer & the Iliad by : Florence Melian Stawell
Download or read book Homer & the Iliad written by Florence Melian Stawell and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Essay on the original genius and writings of Homer: with a comparative view of the ancient and present state of the Troade. Illustrated with engravings by : Robert WOOD (Author of “The Ruins of Palmyra.”.)
Download or read book An Essay on the original genius and writings of Homer: with a comparative view of the ancient and present state of the Troade. Illustrated with engravings written by Robert WOOD (Author of “The Ruins of Palmyra.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essay on the Influence of the Homeric Poems on the Greek Nation by : Homer
Download or read book Essay on the Influence of the Homeric Poems on the Greek Nation written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Iliad & The Odyssey written by Homer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Homer on Life and Death by : Jasper Griffin
Download or read book Homer on Life and Death written by Jasper Griffin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profound.
Book Synopsis An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer by : Robert Wood
Download or read book An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer written by Robert Wood and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer: With a Comparative View of the Ancient and Present State of the Troade Having, in my Preface to the Ruins of Palmyra, informed the Reader, that one of the objects of our Eastern voyages was to visit one of the most celebrated scenes of ancient story, in order to compare their present appearance with the early classical ideas, we had conceived of them; and particularly, that we proposed to read the Iliad and Odyssey in the countries, where Achilles fought, where Ulysses travelled, and where Homer sung; I considered myself in some sort accountable to the public, and my friends, for the result of this part of our scheme: and therefore determined to employ my first leisure in throwing together such observations, as this inquiry had furnished; confining my first Essay of this kind to what concerns the Greek Poet. But, however ambitious I was to engage in the cause of Homer, the difficulties I found as to the manner of doing him justice, greatly embarrassed me. For though our expectations from this object of our curiosity were by no means disappointed, yet I almost despaired of a satisfactory method of conveying to others a tolerable idea of the entertainment, we received from it on the spot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Homer & the Iliad; An Essay to Determine the Scope and Character of the Original Poem by : Florence Melian Stawell
Download or read book Homer & the Iliad; An Essay to Determine the Scope and Character of the Original Poem written by Florence Melian Stawell and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Why Homer Matters by : Adam Nicolson
Download or read book Why Homer Matters written by Adam Nicolson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt...and his excitement is contagious."—James Wood, The New Yorker Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek—and our—consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the distant past of the Mediterranean world as immediate to us as the events of our own time. Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the poems themselves and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer's poems occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes "a third space" in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, nor as the objective accounts of history, but as epic, invented after memory but before history, poetry which aims "to bind the wounds that time inflicts." The Homeric poems are among the oldest stories we have, drawing on deep roots in the Eurasian steppes beyond the Black Sea, but emerging at a time around 2000 B.C. when the people who would become the Greeks came south and both clashed and fused with the more sophisticated inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean. The poems, which ask the eternal questions about the individual and the community, honor and service, love and war, tell us how we became who we are.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by : Gregory Nagy
Download or read book The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours written by Gregory Nagy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
Book Synopsis Homer and the Odyssey by : Suzanne Saïd
Download or read book Homer and the Odyssey written by Suzanne Saïd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction to the oral tradition which lay at the source of the Homeric epics and a discussion on the reception of the Homeric poems in Antiquity, this volume explores the mysterious figure of Homer, an author about whom little is known. Ruth Webb's translation is a revised and much expanded version of the original French text.
Book Synopsis Homer the Iliad by : F. Melian Stawell
Download or read book Homer the Iliad written by F. Melian Stawell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Homer the Iliad: An Essay to Determine the Scope, and Character of the Original Poem This is a glorious plan, but it comes to us blurred by gross inconsistencies, flat repetitions, inexplicable delays. Small wonder that the fight has been bitter between those who refuse to believe that the harmony can be due to any thing but the creative genius of one mind, and those who ask how any man could have spoilt his own work by such unnecessary flaws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
