The Cambridge Companion to Homer
The Cambridge Companion to Homer
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.
- Ideal introduction for novice reader, but also offers critical insights for the expert
- Deals in greater depth than other general works with the reception of the Homeric poems from antiquity down to the present day
- Has an overriding emphasis on the poems as literary creations
Reviews & endorsements
"This fine installment in the "Cambridge Companions to Literature" series comprises 22 terse, original essays by recognized scholars and critics. The essays range over five areas of special concern in modern Homeric studies. Highly recommended." CHOICE May 2005
"Advanced readers of Homer will find much to interest them in these pages: the individual essays make stimulating points for those who already know a lot about Homer." - Deborah Beck, Swarthmore College
Product details
November 2004Paperback
9780521012461
444 pages
229 × 152 × 25 mm
0.705kg
12 b/w illus. 2 maps
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction Robert Fowler
- Part I. The Poems and their Narrator:
- 1. The Iliad: an unpredictable classic Donald Lateiner
- 2. The Odyssey and its explorations Michael Silk
- 3. The storyteller and his audience Ruth Scodel
- Part II. The Characters:
- 4. The gods in the Homeric epics Emily Kearns
- 5. Manhood and heroism Michael Clarke
- 6. Gender and Homeric epic Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin
- Part III. The Poet's Craft:
- 7. Formulas, metre and type-scenes Matthew Clarke
- 8. Similes and other likenesses Richard Buxton
- 9. The speeches Jasper Griffin
- Part IV. Text and Context:
- 10. Epic as genre John Miles Foley
- 11. The epic tradition in Greece Ken Dowden
- 12. Homer's society Robin Osborne
- 13. The Homeric question Robert Fowler
- Part V. Homeric Receptions:
- 14. Homer and Greek literature Richard Hunter
- 15. Roman Homer Joseph Farrell
- 16. Homer and English epic Penelope Wilson
- 17. Homer and the Romantics Timothy Webb
- 18. Homer and Ulysses Vanda Zajko
- 19. Homer: the history of an idea James Porter
- 20. 'Shards and suckers': contemporary receptions of Homer Lorna Hardwick
- 21. Homer in English translation George Steiner.
