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The Cambridge companion to Homer / ed. by Robert Fowler. - Cambridge : Cambridge University, 2006. - xvii, 419 p. : il.

The Iliad : An Unpredictable classic / The Odyssey and its explorations / The Story-teller and his audience / The Gods in the homeric epics / Manhood and heroism / Gender and homeric epic / Formulas, metre and type-scenes / Similes and other likenesses / The Speeches / Epic as genre / The Epic tradition in Greece / Homer's society / The Homeric question / Homer and Greek literature / Roman Homer / Homer and English epic / Homer and the romantics / Homer and Ulysses / Homer : The History of an idea / Shards and suckers' : Contemporary receptions of Homer / Homer n English translation / Donald Lateiner -- Michael Silk -- Ruth Scodel -- Emily Kearns -- Michael Clarke -- Nancy Felson, Laura M. Slatkin -- Matthew Clark -- Richard Buxton -- Jasper Griffin -- John Miles Foley -- Ken Dowdwn -- Robin Osborne -- Robert Fowler -- Richard Hunter -- Joseph Farrell -- Penelope Wilson -- Timothy Webb -- Vanda Zajko -- James I. Porter -- Lorna Hardwick -- George Steiner

ISBN: 0521012465

Standard No.: 042189

Subjects--Personal Names:
Homero

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Crítica literaria
Poesía
Poesía épica
Escritores

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Grecia

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 875.07(Homero)