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The Shade of Homer
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Pages: 210
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Categories: Literary Criticism
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In exploring the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern Greece - benign shade or looming shadow? - Dr Ricks is tackling a theme that has implications fo
Homer and the Poetics of Hades
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: George Alexander Gazis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This unique approach to the Iliad and the Odyssey explores the role and function of Hades as a poetic environment in which traditional exposition of heroic valu
Homer
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Pages: 292
Authors: James I. Porter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of anti
The Cambridge Guide to Homer
Language: en
Pages: 974
Authors: Corinne Ondine Pache
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and a
The Shield of Achilles
Language: en
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Authors: W. H. Auden
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-07 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new genera