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Homer - The Very Idea (Paperback)
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Homer - The Very Idea (Paperback)
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Loot Price R498
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The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the
myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is
revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting
influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions about who he
was, when he lived, and whether he was an actual person, a myth, or
merely a shared idea. Rather than attempting to solve the mystery
of this character, James I. Porter explores the sources of Homer's
mystique and their impact since the first recorded mentions of
Homer in ancient Greece. Homer: The Very Idea considers Homer not
as a man, but as a cultural invention nearly as distinctive and
important as the poems attributed to him, following the cultural
history of an idea and of the obsession that is reborn every time
Homer is imagined. Offering novel readings of texts and objects,
the book follows the very idea of Homer from his earliest mentions
to his most recent imaginings in literature, criticism, philosophy,
visual art, and classical archaeology.
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