Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: a biography
"No one knows whether Homer ever existed, but there is no doubt that the poems assembled under his name are foundations of Western literature. The Iliad and Odyssey--with their tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Odysseus, and Penelope, the Cyclops, and the beautiful Helen of Troy and the petula...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2024]
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| Ausgabe: | Revised and expanded edition |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "No one knows whether Homer ever existed, but there is no doubt that the poems assembled under his name are foundations of Western literature. The Iliad and Odyssey--with their tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Odysseus, and Penelope, the Cyclops, and the beautiful Helen of Troy and the petulant gods--have inspired us for over two and a half millennia and influenced writers from Plato to Virgil, Pope to Joyce, and Dante to Margaret Atwood. In this revised and expanded edition, Alberto Manguel ignited new ways of thinking about these classic works"--Back cover |
| Beschreibung: | "First published in Great Britain in hardcover in 2007 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd."--Title page verso |
| Beschreibung: | x, 290 pages 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780300272475 0300272472 |
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