Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPThe story of the Trojan War, an epic tale of men and gods, of the heroes and horrors of war.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A conci
Jenny Strauss Clay provides a systematic & convincing reading of the four Homeric hymns as a group, & in relation to the epics of Homer & the 'Theogony' of Hesiod. She reveals
North American and Australian contributors do not contrast ancient and modern approaches to the Iliad and Odyssey here, or even necessarily distinguish between them, but combine methods across tempora
The classics are rapidly receding from public consciousness, and modern revisions of them, such as the film?O Brother, Where Art Thou, are in genuine danger of never being linked to their original ins
Homeric Conversation is the first full-length study of conversation in the Homeric poems. Deborah Beck argues that conversation should be considered a traditional Homeric type scene, alongside recogni
This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. This book investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and pra
Homeric epic is concerned with the past. Its heroes are larger than life and accomplish their exploits in a bygone age outside the reach of ordinary mortals. Yet epic is not only a nostalgic memory of
An Italian nuclear engineer with an extensive background in Latin and Greek, Vinci solves geographical disparities that have puzzled scholars for millennia by arguing that the earliest epic poems in W
This thematic fourth Supplementum to Ancient Narrative, entitled Metaphor and the Ancient Novel, is a collection of revised versions of papers originally read at the Second Rethymnon International Con
A brilliant introduction to Greek mythology follows King Odysseus, who, after the siege of Troy, embarks on a perilous journey back to Ithaca, encountering the one-eyed Cyclops, the enchantress Circe,
The Story of the IliadHomer's epic poem, The Illiad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. In it, the abduction of the legendary beauty, Helen of Troy, leads to a conflict in which eve
Seth Benardete's study of the Iliad, which initiated his scholarly career, bears the hallmarks of the unique turn of mind that characterized all his later work. In a brief Note written thirty years la
Seth Benardete's study of the Iliad, which initiated his scholarly career, bears the hallmarks of the unique turn of mind that characterized all his later work. In a brief Note written thirty years l
The long siege of Troy is over, and the city is in ashes. Heroic King Odysseus can finally return to Ithaca, but the voyage home holds terrors far greater than any he faced during the Trojan War. Sto
Simone Weil's "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" is one of her most celebrated works - an analysis of Homer's epic that presents a nightmare vision of combat as a machine in which all humanity is lost
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製，需達到一定的數量書商才會著手印製。In 1831 Goethe called Daphnis and Chloe 'a masterpiece ... in which Understanding, Art, and Taste appear at their highest point, and beside which the
