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The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to ...

The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to ...

James Tatum

Homer's poetry would give women much insight into the roles they could play for men, which, as Helen shows, were not always the roles that men thought they should play. 6. Latacz, Homer, 15–22 (“The New Relevance of Homer”). Latacz ...
Homer, His Art and His World

Homer, His Art and His World

Joachim Latacz

Homer, His Art and His World will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including those interested in the literary history of Western culture. Joachim Latacz is Professor of Greek at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery

Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery

Joachim Latacz

In this book Joachim Latacz, one of Korfmann's closest collaborators, shows how this new research has shed light on what is now known about Troy and the Trojan War.
COLLOQUIUM RAURICUM 2:

COLLOQUIUM RAURICUM 2:

Joachim Latacz

Inhaltsverzeichnis Homer und die archäologische Forschung Homer und die althistorische Forschung Homer und die Sprachwissenschaft Mythenforschung und Religionswissenschaft im Zusammenhang mit Homer Biographische Forschung zu Homer Die ...
Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

Barbara Graziosi

closeness to the gods and his poverty, and yet modern scholars seem to take Homer's closeness to the gods for granted ... Latacz is one of the tew scholars who states these assumptions explicitly, In his entry on Homer for Der Neue Paid. y he ...
The Quest: John Morritt, His Travels to Troy, 1794-1796

The Quest: John Morritt, His Travels to Troy, 1794-1796

Robert D. Morritt

Latacz takes his stand firmly on Korfmannn's side, and focuses on explaining what this position means for how we read Homer. Latacz brings together archaeological, historical and philological data in a fine illustration of classical scholarship's ...
Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic

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André Lardinois, “Modern Paroemiology and the Use of Gnomai in Homer's Iliad”, in: CPh 92 (1997) 213-234. ... Homers Ilias. Gesamtkommentar. Band I, Erster Gesang (A). Faszikel 2: Kommentar, Munich, Leipzig (2000). Latacz (2003a) ...
Homer’s Iliad The Basel Commentary

Homer’s Iliad The Basel Commentary

Marina Coray

La Roche, J. 'Die Stellung des attributiven und appositiven Adjectives bei Homer.' WS 19:161–188. Laser, S. 'Hausrat.' ArchHom chap. P. Göttingen. Laser, S. ' Medizin und Körperpflege.' ArchHom chap. S. Göttingen. Latacz, J. Zum Wortfeld  ...
Homers Ilias. Gesamtkommentar. Auf Der Grundlage Der Ausgabe ...

Homers Ilias. Gesamtkommentar. Auf Der Grundlage Der Ausgabe ...

Joachim Latacz

No complete, scholarly commentary of Homer's Iliad has been published in German since Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868-1913).
Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey

Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey

Homer

George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.
The Cambridge companion to Homer

The Cambridge companion to Homer

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Chapters on Homer in English translation and Homer in the history of ideas round out the collection.
Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

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'"Iliad-no sakusha-da, Homer-ga. Iliad-GEN author-cop Homer-NOM '[It] is the author of the Iliad, Homer.' 0 a. *Iliad-wa, sakusha-da, Homer-ga. Iliad-TOP author-cop Homer-NOM 'As for the Iliad, [it] is the author, Homer.' b. Homer-ga ...
Homer: Everyman's Poetry

Homer: Everyman's Poetry

Author Homer

Little is known about the poet Homer but he is thought to have composed the Iliad in the second half of the eight century BC and according to tradition lived on the island of Chios in the east Aegean.
Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Barbara Graziosi

The Resonance of Epic Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold. the name 'Homer' spoke of beautiful poetry, and that the Iliad and the Odyssey were eventually singled out as the best poems. The rules which dictated that 'Homer and Homer ...
Homer's Text and Language

Homer's Text and Language

Gregory Nagy

In Homeric studies, an ongoing debate centers on different ways to establish the texts of Homer and the different ways to appreciate the poetry created in the language of Homer.
Ulysses Homer; Or, A Discovery of the True Author of the ...

Ulysses Homer; Or, A Discovery of the True Author of the ...

Jean-Baptiste Lechevalier

Those on the contrary who have maintained that Homer did not exist till many ages after the taking of Troy, being ... are necessarily obliged to suppose that the author of the Iliad, whosoever he may have been, Homer, Ulysses, or any one else, ...
Homer Travestie: being a new translation of the four first ...

Homer Travestie: being a new translation of the four first ...

Homer

Homer, Thomas Bridges, COTTON (Junior, pseud. [i.e. Thomas Bridges.]) ... that material article, we. an author to stand to his Word in any thing in money matters - , I know it isbetter never 6 THE AUTHOR'S must understand, is a new one of 'my .. .
The Odyssey of Homer: A New Verse Translation

The Odyssey of Homer: A New Verse Translation

Homer

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Homer

Homer

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Provides insight into two of Homer's epic poems along with a short history of the man and his life.
Homer

Homer

R. B. Rutherford

A concise yet detailed account of the state of criticism of the two great epics ascribed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer

Homer

Barry B. Powell

This concise book is a complete and contemporary introduction to Homer and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer in English

Homer in English

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This text is one of the volumes in the New Poets in Translation series. It focuses on the epic poems of Homer, one of the most translated authors in literature.
Homer: Iliad

Homer: Iliad

Homer

At the same time it adumbrates Achilles' own death and the fall of Troy. This edition will help students and scholars better appreciate this key part of the epic poem.
Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer

Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer

Plutarch

This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the history and interpretation of Homer.
Homer's Odyssey

Homer's Odyssey

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This volume assembles sixteen authoritative articles on Homer's Odyssey that have appeared over the last thirty years.
Homer: Iliad

Homer: Iliad

Homer

The first commentary in English entirely devoted to the Iliad Book 6, illuminating some of the best-loved episodes in the whole poem.
Homer: The Iliad

Homer: The Iliad

William Allan

This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture.

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