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Homeric Responses
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Gregory Nagy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the world's foremost epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questions remain about them. Who was Homer—a
The Best of the Achaeans
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Gregory Nagy
Categories: Greek poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher:

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Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Rachel Ahern Knudsen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Knudsen argues that Homeric epics are the locus for the origins of rhetoric. Traditionally, Homer's epics have been the domain of scholars and students interest
Reading Homer
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Kostas Myrsiades
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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These nine new essays on Homer's epics deal not only with major Homeric themes of time (honor), kleos (fame), geras (rewards), the psychology of Homeric warrior
The Renewal of Epic
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: V. Knight
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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The Renewal of Epic considers various modes of allusion to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius, dealing not only with similarities in phraseology but also wi