Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521809665)

How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book looks at stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth, name and origin, blindness and his relationship to other poets and his descendants. The work studies the ancient reception of the Homeric poems, and looks at it in relation to modern representations of Homer, ancient and modern conceptions of authorship, and the "Homeric Question".

Author: Barbara Graziosi
ISBN-10: 0521809665
ISBN-13: 9780521809665
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2002
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.88h x 5.82w x 0.97d