342 results for '"Homer"'

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

Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics lineA Penguin ClassicThe Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life...

The hero’s journey home from war.Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus’ long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays,...

The hero's journey home from war. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays,...

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert FaglesSoon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher NolanA Penguin ClassicRobert Fagles, winner of the...

The great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert FaglesA Penguin ClassicDating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys...

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...

Homer and the Poetics of Gesture is the first book of its kind to consider the epic formula in terms that are gestural as well as verbal. Drawing on studies from multiple disciplines, including...

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...

What has been done in recent times in the fields of archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, and comparative oral literature, not to mention literary criticism itself, has put the whole...

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold...

The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in paperback.This edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and Fitzgerald's Postscript. Line drawings precede each book of the poem...

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...

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...