Seventh impression. — York Press, 1995. — (York Notes). — 93 p. — ISBN: 0-582-79227-4. The 'Homeric question'. Archaeology and the Iliad. The language of Homer. Some problems. A note on the history of the written text. Summaries. A general summary. Detailed summaries. Commentary. Structure and form. The heroic world: attitudes and values. The anger of Achilles: the tragic...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become a...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — xiv, 265 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-090967-3. True PDF This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey. The principal revenge plot of the Odyssey –Odysseus' surprise return to Ithaca after twenty away and his vengeance on Penelope's suitors – is the act for which he is most celebrated. This story forms the backbone of the Odyssey....
I.B. Tauris & Co, 2015. — 224 p. — (Understanding Classics). — ISBN: 978-0-85773-514-0. What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central paradox of 'Homer' is that - while recognized as producing poetry of incomparable genius - even in...
Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1960. — (Hermes Einzelschriften, Heft 14). Die Quellen der Ilias has become the definitive study of the cyclic tradition and its relationship to the Iliad as the most important contributions to neoanalysis since Schadewaldt. Kullmann begins with a survey of references in the Iliad to events of the complete story of Troy and a defense of neoanalysis. For...
University of California Press, 1985. — 223 p. From the Preface: This book is addressed mainly to non-specialist readers who do not know Greek and who read, study, or teach the Iliad in translation; it also is meant for classical scholars whose professional specialization has prevented them from keeping abreast of recent work on Homer. It is grounded in technical scholarship,...
HarperCollins, 2014. — 314 p. Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant? Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction In this passionate...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 240 p. In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's "Iliad" within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. — 336 p. The Poetics of Consent breaks new ground in Homeric studies by interpreting the Iliad’s depictions of political action in terms of the poetic forces that shaped the Iliad itself. Arguing that consensus is a central theme of the epic, David Elmer analyzes in detail scenes in which the poem’s three political communities - Achaeans,...
University of Texas Press, 1996. — 192 p. The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission? In this innovative...
University of Texas Press, 1996. — 192 p. The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission? In this innovative...
London: Macmillan, 1950. — XXIII, 552 p., ill. An old, but still the most important study on monuments and historical reality as reflected by Homeric poems. A masterpiece.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. — IX, 102 p. My main assumption (that Homer wrote the Iliad substantially as we have it) is now almost fashionable. I like to think that this is not because we wish it was so, but because we begin to see more clearly the face of early Greece: while it was dawn, and while the bright day grew
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. — XVI, 191 p. An important monograph on the Catalogue of ships in Homer; the authors argue that it reflects historical reality of Mycenaean Greece.
München: Theodor Ackermann, Königlicher Hofbuchhändler, 1882. — 210 S. Erster Teil. Untersuchung des Verhältnisses der Odyssee zur Ilias mit Hilfe der Wiederholungen. Zweiter Teil. Nachahmungen der älteren Teilen der Odyssee in den jüngeren.
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 382 p. The Homer Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference work encompassing the world and artistry of Homer, the historical and cultural background of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homeric scholarship, and Homeric reception from antiquity to the present. Represents the first encyclopedia on Homer ever published. Features...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 394 p. The Homer Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference work encompassing the world and artistry of Homer, the historical and cultural background of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homeric scholarship, and Homeric reception from antiquity to the present. Represents the first encyclopedia on Homer ever published. Features...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 374 p. The Homer Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference work encompassing the world and artistry of Homer, the historical and cultural background of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homeric scholarship, and Homeric reception from antiquity to the present. Represents the first encyclopedia on Homer ever published. Features...
London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2009. — 320 p. — (Library of New Testament Studies 400). — ISBN10: 0-567-42664-5; ISBN: 978-0567-42664-2 (HB). Homer was the gateway to education, to the skills of reading and writing. These skills were necessary for the nascent Church. Knowledge of Homer's writings was a sign of Greekness, of at-home-ness in the society. Education was...