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Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover, New)
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Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover, New)
Series: Guides for the Perplexed
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Homer's poetry is widely recognized as the beginning of the
literary tradition of the West and among its most influential
canonical texts. Outlining a series of key themes, ideas, and
values associated with Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for
the Perplexed explores the question of the formation of the Iliad
and the Odyssey - the so-called 'Homeric Problem'. Among the main
Homeric themes which the book considers are origin and form,
orality and composition, heroic values, social structure, and
social bias, gender roles and gendered interpretation, ethnicity,
representations of religion, mortality, and the divine, memory,
poetry, and poetics, and canonicity and tradition, and the history
of Homeric receptions. Drawing upon his extensive knowledge of
scholarship on Homer and early epic, Ahuvia Kahane explores
contemporary critical and philosophical questions relating to Homer
and the Homeric tradition, and examines his wider cultural impact,
contexts and significance. This is the ideal companion to study of
this most influential poet, providing readers with some basic
suggestions for further pursuing their interests in Homer.
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