A New Companion to Homer by I. Morris, B. B. Powell (Editor), Ian Morris

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This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields comprehensively. Thirty leading scholars from Europe and America provide short, authoritative overviews of the state of knowledge and current controversies in the many specialist divisions in Homeric studies. The chapters pay equal attention to literary, mythological, linguistic, historical, and archaeological topics, ranging from such long-established problems as the "Homeric Question" to newer issues like the relevance of narratology and computer-assisted quantification. This handbook, the third in Brill's series The Classical Tradition, will be valuable at every level of study, from the general student of literature to the Homeric specialist seeking a general understanding of the latest developments across the whole range of Homeric scholarship.

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Updating the 1962 "Companion to Homer", scholars from Europe and America offer 30 overviews of the current ideas and controversies in the many specialist divisions of Homeric studies, including literary, mythological, linguistic, historical, and archaeological. Their topics include Homeric papyri and the transmission of the text, dialect, meter, oral poetics, the structure and interpretation of the "Iliad", modern theoretical approaches, quantifying epic, Homer and Hesiod, the Bronze Age and Iron Age, Greek art, the Near East, society, warfare, and ethics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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