Homer
Subtitle: German scholarship in translation
By: translated by G.M. Wright and P.V. Jones ; with introduction by P.V. Jones.
Contributors: Wright, G. M.; Jones, P. V.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.; Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.; Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature.; Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature.; Trojan War -- Literature and the war.; Mythology, Greek, in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The sociology of the Homeric epics / Hermann Strasburger; title: The "inner composition" of the speeches in the Iliad / D. Lohmann; title: Essence and nature of the Homeric similes / H. Fränkel; title: Hector and Andromache ; Achilles' decision / W. Schadewaldt; title: The judgement of Paris / K. Reinhardt; title: The fight for justice and departure of Telemachus / Friedrich Klingner; title: Homer and the Telemachy, Circe and Calypso, The Phaeacians / K. Reinhardt; title: The song of Ares and Aphrodite: on the relationship between the Odyssey and the Iliad / Walter Burkert; title: The ending of the Odyssey: linguistic problems / Hartmut Erbse.