Homeric Catalogue of Shapes
Subtitle: The Iliad and Odyssey Seen Differently
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781350039582
Subjects: Homer; Art and literature
Description: "In the popular imagination, Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, epitomises poetic genius. So, when scholars proposed that the Homeric epics were not the unique creation of an individual author, but instead reflected a traditional compositional system developed by generations of singer-poets, swathes of assumptions about the poems and their 'author' were swept aside and called into question. Much had to be re-evaluated through a new lens"--