289 results for '"Homer"'

This is a book for all readers of Homer, whether in translation or in the original. It attempts to characterize the poetic art of the Iliad and the Odyssey and to analyse in a simple way the reasons...

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The epic tale of wrath and redemption.Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer’s stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures...

Book by Fenik, Bernard

The twenty-fourth book of the Iliad - the account of Priam's ransoming of Hector's body from Achilles - is one of the masterpieces of world literature, a work of interest to a far wider audience than...

Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this...

Homer’s great epic The Odyssey—one of Western literature’s most enduring and important works—translated by Richmond LattimoreA classic for the ages, The Odyssey recounts Odysseus’ journey home after...

By G.b. Nussbaum.

In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed--careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist...

'War, the bringer of tears...' For 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy, sparked...

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how...

The first comprehensive exploration of Homer’s etchings in the context of his paintings and as fully realized artworks in their own right American artist Winslow Homer (1836–1910) is renowned for...