
Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed
A Guide for the Perplexed
Ahuvia Kahane(Author)
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published on 13. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-4411-0010-8 (ISBN)
Description
Homer's poetry is widely recognized as the beginning of the literary tradition of the West and among its most influential canonical texts. Outlining a series of key themes, ideas, and values associated with Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed explores the question of the formation of the Iliad and the Odyssey - the so-called 'Homeric Problem'. Among the main Homeric themes which the book considers are origin and form, orality and composition, heroic values, social structure, and social bias, gender roles and gendered interpretation, ethnicity, representations of religion, mortality, and the divine, memory, poetry, and poetics, and canonicity and tradition, and the history of Homeric receptions. Drawing upon his extensive knowledge of scholarship on Homer and early epic, Ahuvia Kahane explores contemporary critical and philosophical questions relating to Homer and the Homeric tradition, and examines his wider cultural impact, contexts and significance. This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential poet, providing readers with some basic suggestions for further pursuing their interests in Homer.
Reviews / Votes
Ahuvia Kahane provides a highly accessible and lucid survey covering a wide range of central aspects with an unobtrusive authority: metre, enjambment and ring composition are all here, clearly explained, but so is the latest archaeology from Hissarlik, the latest thinking on the historical setting...This is an excellent introduction to Homer aimed at students and general readers who want to understand the power and problems of Homeric poetry. It's a book from which even those who feel themselves reasonably familiar with the poems are likely to learn new things. -- Professor Tony Spawforth, Chairman of the Judges, The Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 2013More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-0010-8 (9781441100108)
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Ahuvia Kahane
Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed
E-Book
12/2012
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic USA
€26.49
Available for download

Ahuvia Kahane
Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed
E-Book
12/2012
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic USA
€26.49
Available for download
Person
Ahuvia Kahane is Professor of Greek and Director of the Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Content
Introductory Note; 1. The Figures of Homeric Poetry; 2. Homeric Histories; 3. The Poet and the Making of the Poems; 4. Homer's Poetic Language; 5. Proems, Tales and Plots; 6. The Iliad; 7. The Odyssey; 8. Boundaries and Social Worlds; 9. Mortality and the Divine; Bibliography; Index.