Homer (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: April 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781405153256
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; History; History - General History; Hellenic languages; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Ancient and Classical; Poetry; CIVILIZATION, HOMERIC; EPIC POETRY_HISTORY AND CRITICISM; HOMER; History / Ancient / Greece; MYTHOLOGY IN LITERATURE; TROJAN WAR_LITERATURE AND THE WAR; Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature; Epic poetry, Greek; History and criticism; Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature
First sentence: Philologists are "lovers of language" and everything about language interests them, but not language as a universally human faculty - linguists do that.