Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey
Subtitle: a biography
By: Alberto Manguel.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Books that changed the world series; Books that changed the world (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780871139764
Subjects: Homer; Homer; Epic poetry, Greek; Trojan War -- Poetry; Odysseus (Greek mythology)
Genres: Poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Summaries of the books; title: A life of Homer?; title: Among the philosophers; title: Virgil; title: Christian Homer; title: Other Homers; title: Homer in Islam; title: Dante; title: Homer in Hell; title: Greek versus Latin; title: Ancients versus moderns; title: Homer as poetry; title: Realms of gold; title: Homer as idea; title: The eternal feminine; title: Homer as symbol; title: Homer as history; title: Madame Homer; title: Ulysses' travels; title: Homer through the looking glass; title: The never-ending war; title: Everyman.