A guide to the reader of Homer - to the form and the language of the poems and to their local and historical background. Presents, authoritatively, many important results from...
"Who Killed Homer?" is a blistering indictment of college administrators and classicists who have compromised scholarly standards for both professors and students, from whom deep, rigorous learning is no longer expected.
At that tine the masters of the previous age were elevated to the rank of 'classics'. The works of the imperial period are replete with literary allusions, yet full of references to contemporary reality.
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 is the first collection of scholarly essays on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently ...
Her close reading of the text shows how the Iliad refers to expanded and alternative traditions about Briseis even while asserting its own version of her story. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The anthology offers not only fresh approaches to reading, appreciating, and understanding these Homeric epics, but also attempts to make a case why these works are still relevant in the twenty-first century.
The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, ...
A translation with revisions of Omgangsvormen in het Homerische epos, originally presented as the author's thesis, Utrecht, 1975.
This four-volume comparative grammar of the Slavonic languages (originally published 1852-74) was among Franz Miklosich's most influential works.