This is a book about Homer, myth and art. The Iliad and Odyssey so
dominate our view of ancient Greece that our natural reaction on
viewing certain works of early Greek art is to identify them as
'scenes from Homer'. However, Anthony Snodgrass argues that, so far
from 'illustrating' the Homeric poems, these works very rarely show
signs of acquaintance with the Iliad or Odyssey, seldom even
choosing their subject-matter from them. When the subjects do
overlap, the artists occasionally give positive signs of preferring
a non-Homeric version of the episode. He then attempts to explain
why this should be so: despite Homer's unique standing in
antiquity, the artists inhabited an independent world, where their
own inspirations and concerns dominated their production. It is
only the traditional dominance of the literary study of antiquity
which has hidden this from us.
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