The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the real world
Subtitle: proceedings from a seminar sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage and held at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. on March 6-7, 1998
By: edited by Deborah Boedeker ; compiled by Anna Lea
Publisher: Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Congresses
Notes: "The papers collected here were presented (in slightly different form) at a colloquium co-sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage and the Smithsonian Institution."--Introd.

'The Contributors': p. iii-iv.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Deborah Boedeker; title: Making Homer Sing Again. 'Patrocleia': A Performance Copy / Stanley Lombardo; title: Epic, Memory, Mortality / Ahuvia Kahane; title: Heroism, Suffering, and Change / Erwin Cook; title: Achilles the Soldier, Odysseus the Veteran, Homer the Tragic Poet / Jonathan Shay; title: Homer's Odyssey: The Adventure of Homecoming / Sheila Murnaghan - Homer, Political Thought, and the Discovery of Civic Responsibility / Kurt Raaflaub.