Homer
Subtitle: Poet of the Iliad
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801833298
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Iliad; Greek Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Literature and the war; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Epic poetry, Greek; Achilles (Greek mythology) in; Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature; History and criticism; Homer; Trojan War
First sentence: Helen, to cheer her young visitors Telemachus and Peisistratus after the whole gathering has been weeping for the heroes lost at Troy, casts a tranquilizing drug into the wine and suggests they tell stories as they dine; she herself begins with the tale of Odysseus's visit to Troy in disguise (Odyssey 4.238ff.).