Homer : a Guide for the Perplexed.
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London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
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9781441189264, 1441189262, 1283706245, 9781283706247, 1441173064, 9781441173065
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1 online resource (225 pages).
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Published
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
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ONLINE
Language
English
ISBN
9781441189264, 1441189262, 1283706245, 9781283706247, 1441173064, 9781441173065
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Homer?s poetry is widely recognized as the beginning of the literary tradition of the West and among its most influential canonical texts. Outlining a series of key themes, ideas, and values associated with Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed explores the question of the formation of the Iliad and the Odyssey - the so-called?Homeric Problem?. Among the main Homeric themes which the book considers are origin and form, orality and composition, heroic values, social structure, and social bias, gender roles and gendered interpretation, ethnicity, representations of religion.
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eBooks on EBSCOhost,EBSCO eBooks for FE/HE Collection (UK)
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