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041 _aEnglish
082 0 0 _a883.01
_bFow/R
245 0 4 _aThe Cambridge companion to Homer
_cedited by Robert Fowler.
260 _aUK
_bCambridge University Press
_c2004
300 _axvii, 419 p.
_bill., maps
_c24 cm.
505 0 _apt. 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 0 0 _aHomer
650 0 _aEpic poetry, Greek
_xHistory and criticism
_vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
650 0 _aMythology, Greek, in literature
_vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
700 1 _aFowler, R. L.
_4ed.
942 _cBK
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