Homer

  • Homer: The Very Idea
    By James I. Porter

    The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence.

  • Homer: Critical Assessments
    By Irene J. F. de Jong

    Die etablierten Erfahrungswerte der Geschwindigkeit von Fußgänger und Schiff sowie ihrer Relation zueinander erleiden , an die Reise der Seele ins Totenreich angelegt , einen Bruch , der sie ...

  • Homer: The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat
    By Gwen Cooper

    But destiny took a hand the day he met Gwen Cooper, and with the publication twelve years later of the international best seller "Homer's Odyssey," Homer went from beloved housecat to world-wide star.

  • Homer: Iliad XIII-XXIV
    By Homer

    This text provides a line-by-line commentary on Books XIII-XXIV of Homer's epic poem, the Iliad.

  • Homer: Odyssey I and II
    By Peter Jones

    This edition is produced with particular concern for the student coming to Homer for the first time.

  • Homer: The Odyssey
    By Homer

    The Odyssey is one of the earliest works of European literature, second only to the Iliad. These two great epic poems, the astonishing first fruits of Greek civilization, have together...

  • Homer: The Iliad
    By William Allan

    This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture.

  • Homer: A Very Short Introduction
    By Barbara Graziosi

    Dante had no access to the Odyssey in Greek, and seems to have ignored the Latin summaries of the poem that circulated in his time. His account was based on ancient Roman authors: from Virgil he knew that Ulysses was an 'inventor of ...

  • Homer: The Vanishing Village
    By Margaret Ansley Ferguson

    Homer: The Vanishing Village

  • Homer
    By Tammy Gagne

    Others insist he was just one extremely gifted man. Painters, sculptors, and even archaeologists have built entire careers studying Homer and the amazing works with which he is credited.

  • Homer
    By Barbara Graziosi

    The ancient notes on them still influence our interpretation of Homer's work today.

  • Homer: A Very Short Introduction
    By Barbara Graziosi

    Homer: A Very Short Introduction Praise for the hardback, Homer 'The perfect introduction to Homer.' Times Literary Supplement 'Homer has flourished through millennia of cultural receptions, ending up (as Nietzsche noted) more like an ...

  • Homer: Iliad
    By Homer

    At the same time it adumbrates Achilles' own death and the fall of Troy. This edition will help students and scholars better appreciate this key part of the epic poem.

  • Homer: Iliad
    By Homer, Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold

    The first commentary in English entirely devoted to the Iliad Book 6, illuminating some of the best-loved episodes in the whole poem.

  • Homer: Iliad VI
    By Homer, R.H. Jordan

    Iliad VI makes ideal reading for a student approaching the epic for the first time. Amongst other episodes it includes the meeting of Diomedes and Glaukos in battle, which throws...

  • Homer: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
    By R. B. Rutherford

    In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.

  • Homer: An Address Delivered on Behalf of the Independent Labour Party (Classic Reprint)
    By J. W. Mackail

    But this vast work finally took shape in the hands of one or two great poets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

  • Homer: A Beginner's Guide
    By Elton T. E. Barker, Joel P. Christensen

    Perfect for new readers of the great poet and full of insights that will delight Homeric experts, this book will inspire you to discover – or rediscover – his masterpieces first-hand.

  • Homer: Iliad Book I
    By Seth L. Schein

    Liège): 63–83 Porter, A. (2019) Agamemnon, the pathetic despot: reading characterization in the Iliad. Hellenic Studies 78. Washington, D.C. Porter, H. N. (1951) “The early Greek hexameter,” YClS 12: 3–63 Powell, B. B. (1991) Homer and ...

  • Homer: Odyssey Books XIII and XIV
    By Homer

    The Introduction also includes a detailed historical account of the Homeric dialect, as well as sections on metre and the text itself.