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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.
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 ...
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.
Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

Sean Homer

This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides an accessible guide to Lacanian concepts and his writing on: *the imaginary and the symbolic *the Oedipus Complex and the meaning of the phallus *the subject and the ...
January Window

January Window

Philip Kerr

'Let's justsay she's not a loverof thegame. And right now, she seemsto like Ronan Reilly for Zarco's cunt much myself.' murder.' 'I never liked that or Barry.' 'Him, Sean 'Sean?' Maurice made a face. 'Actually, I don't thinkit can have been Sean ...
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 .. .
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 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 ...
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.
The Death Trade (Sean Dillon Series, Book 20)

The Death Trade (Sean Dillon Series, Book 20)

Jack Higgins

THE NEW HIGGINS HAS LANDED! One man with the key to Armageddon. One chance for Sean Dillon to find him. The hunt is on, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
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.
Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism

Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism

Sean Homer

Fredric Jameson has been described as "probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today" and he is widely acknowledged as the foremost proponent for the tradition of critical theory known as Western Marxism.Yet his work ...
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.
Sean Avery: Hope and Change

Sean Avery: Hope and Change

Martin Avery

Rangers Risky Gamble: Sean Avery Sweepstakes Just Days Before NHL Trade Deadline "The Stars are preparing to place Sean Avery on recall waivers Sunday or Monday," according to Steve Zipay, who writes the Ranger News column for ...
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.
Homer the Preclassic

Homer the Preclassic

Gregory Nagy

Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition.
Collins quotation finder

Collins quotation finder

Trafalgar Square

The collection is drawn from an enormous range of sources, from Homer to Homer Simpson, from Christopher Marlowe to Norman Mailer, from Herodotus to Ian Hislop, and from Hello! magazine to New Scientist.
The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Homer

Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home after the Tojan War, while his wife Penelope and his son Telemachos are forced to scheme to protect his throne until his return.

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