286 results for '"Homer'

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

L'Iliade et l'Odyssée, ces deux monuments de notre culture, revisités par l'un des historiens de l'Antiquité les plus connus dans le monde.Tout le monde a entendu prononcer le nom d'Homère, tout le...

Hermann Fränkel ; Mit Einem Nachwort Und Einem Literaturverzeichnis, Herausgegeben Von Ernst Heitsch. Bibliography: P. [123]-124.

Anthology of Greek and Latin texts from Homer to the 5th cent. A.D. dedicated to what was "secret" in the Greco-Roman world.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Irving’s classic novel about a troubled doctor, the conflicted young orphan he mentors, and what it means to be of use in the world—the basis for the Academy...

Piero Boitani. Homer (ca. 8th-7th Cent.). Bound. P. Boitani Teaches At The Università La Sapienza Of Rome. Includes Bibliographical References.

A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal...

F.A. Wolf set the "Homeric Question" nearly two centuries ago when he argued convincingly that "Homer" was a non-literate bard incapable of composing and performing the monumental Iliad and Odyssey...

An anthology of classical literature features more than three hundred selections, including pieces on the origins of the Greek language, works by Homer, discussion on the fall of Rome and St...

An urgent study of Homer's Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history "Exhilarating."--Emma Greensmith, Times Literary...

Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face—Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:"Kill! Kill for me!Better to die than live...

"Moving from the divinatory rituals of the ancient world to Freud and Lacan, from Homer and Augustine to Edgar Allan Poe and Mallarmâe, the Surrealists, Yeats, and Proust, Far Calls explores the...

More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer's legendary account of this nine-year...

Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world.In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York...

"This book, based on the prestigious Martin Lectures, given annually at Oberlin College, offers a major new interpretation of Vergil's Aeneid. Scholars have tended to view Vergil's poem as an attempt...

Margaret Atwood's acclaimed stage adaptation of Homer. As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and...

The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century B.C. The first historians owed much to Homer and adopted his vivid and direct style in narrating historical events. Yet, despite...

A New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceZachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey...