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The Cambridge companion to Homer (Record no. 18900)

MARC details
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fixed length control field 01663nam a22001817a 4500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780521012461
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 883.01
Book Number Fow/R
245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Cambridge companion to Homer
Statement of responsibility edited by Robert Fowler.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication UK
Name of publisher Cambridge University Press
Year of publication 2004
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xvii, 419 p.
Other physical details ill., maps
Dimensions 24 cm.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note pt. 1. The poems and their narrator. The Iliad : an unpredictable classic / Donald Lateiner ; The Odyssey and its explorations / Michael Silk ; The story-teller and his audience / Ruth Scodel -- pt. 2. The characters. The Gods in the Homeric epics / Emily Kearns ; Manhood and heroism / Michael Clarke ; Gender and Homeric epic / Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin -- pt. 3. The poet's craft. Formulas, metre and type-scenes / Matthew Clark ; Similes and other likenesses / Richard Buxton ; The speeches / Jasper Griffin -- pt. 4. Text and context. Epic as genre / John Miles Foley ; The epic tradition in Greece / Ken Dowden ; Homer's society / Robin Osborne ; The Homeric question / Robert Fowler -- pt. 5. Homeric receptions. Homer and Greek literature / Richard Hunter ; Roman Homer / Joseph Farrell ; Homer and English epic / Penelope Wilson ; Homer and the Romantics / Timothy Webb ; Homer and Ulysses / Vanda Zajko ; Homer : the history of an idea / James I. Porter ; "Shards and suckers" : contemporary receptions of Homer / Lorna Hardwick ; Homer in English translation / George Steiner.
600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Homer
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Epic poetry, Greek
General subdivision History and criticism
Form subdivision Handbooks, manuals, etc.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Mythology, Greek, in literature
Form subdivision Handbooks, manuals, etc.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Fowler, R. L.
Relator code ed.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Books
Holdings
Home library Current library Date acquired Accn No. Full call number Barcode Koha item type
RKSMVV Library RKSMVV Library 30/06/2018 17656 883.01 Fow/R A15415 Books

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