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This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine cosmos, whose structures and themes are reflected in the resonant patterns of Homer's traditional language and narrative techniques. Part II illustrates this claim by looking at some central aspects of the Homeric poems: the gods and fate, gender and society, death, fame and poetry. Each section shows how the patterns and preoccupations of Homeric storytelling reflect a historical vision that encompasses the making of the universe, from its beginnings when Heaven mated with Earth, to the present day.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Homer
• Subtitle: The Resonance of Epic
• Author: Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178
• EAN: 9780715632826
• ISBN: 0715632825
• ID: 04647129
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 280 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. March 2005

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