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Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes
Language: en
Pages: 624
Authors: Jessica Wolfe
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer's epic poems – the Iliad, theOdyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him – served as a lens
Homer
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: James I. Porter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of anti
George Chapman: Homer's 'Iliad'
Language: en
Pages: 482
Authors: Robert S. Miola
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-11 - Publisher: MHRA

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Famously praised by John Keats for speaking ‘loud and bold’, Chapman’s Homer brought Greek poetry and civilization to life for centuries of readers. Many
The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod
Language: en
Pages: 611
Authors: Alexander Loney
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two an
Politics through the Iliad and the Odyssey
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Andrea Catanzaro
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homer’s Iliad and t