Title: The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle /
Authors: Burgess, Jonathan S., 1960-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Homer Knowledge Troy (Extinct city); Homer Influence.; Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism.; Trojan War Literature and the war; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature and history Greece.; Lost literature Greece.; Cycles (Literature); Troy (Extinct city) In literature.
Abstract: Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of the Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.