296 results for '"HOMER"'

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...

"A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation...

Near the end of the ten year long Trojan war, detailing the destructive quarrel between Paris warrior-hero Achilles and King Agamemnon ...

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 interested in ancient Greek poetry, and...

This second volume of a massive three-volume commentary compiled by an international team of scholars includes special discussions of diction in the Odyssey and the tradition of epic diction in...

A painstaking reconstruction of the earliest texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey based on the identification and elimination of interpolations and an understanding of the traditions of early...

The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose—yet whose own...

The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the...

By R. Hope Simpson & J. F. Lazenby. Includes Bibliographical References.

Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the...

A highly energized verse structure, and techniques learned from both stage and cinema, have helped the author produce this English edition of Books Three and Four of Homer's Iliad. Logue has also...

This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors, including the sophists, poets, tragedians, historians, medical writers and presocratic...

Jan Fredrik Kindstrand. Akademistik Avhandling--uppsala. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 231-251).