Inventing Homer Hardback: The Early Reception of Epic (Cambridge Classical Studies) - Hardcover

Graziosi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521809665 ISBN 13: 9780521809665

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book examines stories about this elusive figure that circulated between the sixth and fourth centuries BC, and attempts to explore the ancient reception of the Homeric poems and to look at it in relation to modern conceptions and approaches.

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Críticas:

'One can only wish that Graziosi's approach will be taken up by equally able scholars. She has asked the right questions.' Andreas Hartmann, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

'A detailed, stimulating and fresh examination of the evidence for receptions of epic.' Andrew Ford, JHS

'This well documented book lucidly demonstrates that it is well worth being interested in what motivated and shaped Homeric biography.' Stephen Halliwell, Greece and Rome

Biografía del autor:

Barbara Graziosi is currently Lecturer in Greek at the University of Reading. She was educated in Trieste, Oxford and Cambridge and in 1999-2000 held a Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford. Her doctoral thesis, on which the present book is based, has been shortlisted for the Hellenic Foundation's Annual Prize for the best doctoral thesis.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521809665
• ISBN 13: 9780521809665
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300