Tradition and design in the Iliad
By: by C.M. Bowra ...
Publisher: The Clarendon Press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Homer. -- Criticism and interpretation
Table of contents: title: Tradition and design -- The origins of the epic -- The hexameter -- Some primitive elements -- Repetitions and contradictions -- The similes -- The language -- The historical background -- The characters -- Homeric theology -- Homer and the heroic age -- Homer’s time and place.