Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

Author(s)

• Myrsiades, Kostas

Bibliographic Information

Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

edited by Kostas Myrsiades

（American university studies, Series XIX General literature ; v. 38）

P. Lang, c2010

Note

Includes bibliographies and index

Contents of Works

• Why teach Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades
• Reading Homer through oral tradition / John Miles Foley
• Res agens : towards an ontology of the Homeric self / Damian Stocking
• Feet, fate, and finitude : on standing and inertia in the Iliad / Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
• Learning lessons from the Trojan War : Briseis and the theme of force / Casey Dué
• Poulydamas and Hektor / Matthew Clark
• Aias and the gods / William Duffy
• Homer and the will of Zeus / Joe Wilson
• Assembly and hospitality in the cyclôpeia / Rick M. Newton
• Rewriting the Odyssey in the twent first century : Mary Zimmerman's Odyssey and Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad / Mihoko Zuzuki

Details

• NCID: BB04568203
• ISBN:
  • 9781433108853
• LCCN: 2009040980
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 262 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA4037.A5
  • DC22 : 883/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Homer -- Study and teaching
  • LCSH : Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Epic poetry, Greek -- Study and teaching
  • LCSH : Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Mythology, Greek, in literature -- Study and teaching
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00180562