Highlighting the influence of Homer, the father of Western literature, throughout history, this introduction for new readers of the great poet celebrates the complexity of his two epic poems—The Iliad
This book offers students of Greek and scholars interested in Greek literature the first English-language commentary on the “Battle of Frogs and Mice”, a short animal epic ascribed to Homer in the anc
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the only early Greek heroic epics to have survived the transition to writing, even though extant evidence indicates that they emerged from a thriving oral culture. Among