Homer : German scholarship in translation

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Homer : German scholarship in translation

translated by G.M. Wright and P.V. Jones ; with introduction by P.V. Jones

Clarendon Press, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The sociology of the Homeric epics / Hermann Strasburger
  • The "inner composition" of the speeches in the Iliad / D. Lohmann
  • Essence and nature of the Homeric similes / H. Fränkel
  • Hektor and Andromache / W. Schadewaldt
  • Achilles' decision / W. Schadewaldt
  • The judgement of Paris / K. Reinhardt
  • The fight for justice and the departure of Telemachus / Friedrich Klingner
  • Homer and the Telemachy, Circe and Calypso, the Phaeacians / K. Reinhardt
  • The song of Ares and Aphrodite, on the relationship between the Odyssey and the Iliad / Walter Burkert
  • The ending of the Odyssey, linguistic problems / Hartmut Erbse

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This book translates into English ten influential articles and extracts from books about Homer written in German over the past fifty years. The work of prestigious scholars such as Wolfgang Schadenwaldt, Karl Reinhardt, and Hermann Fraenkel are represented. These key works, which cover such topics as similes, the end of the Odyssey, the adventures of Odysseus, the meeting of Hector and Andromache, ring-composition, the Telemachy, and Homeric social life will now become easily accessible for the first time to teachers and scholars in the English-speaking world. An accompanying introduction develops the arguments in the light of contemporary scholarly concerns.

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