Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
By: [edited by] Kostas Myrsiades.
Contributors: Myrsiades, Kostas.
Series: American university studies xix : general literature -- v. 38
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781433108853
Subjects: Homer -- Study and teaching; Homer -- Criticism and interpretation; Epic poetry, Greek -- Study and teaching; Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism; Mythology, Greek, in literature -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Why teach Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades; title: Reading Homer through oral tradition / John Miles Foley; title: Res agens : towards an ontology of the Homeric self / Damian Stocking; title: Feet, fate, and finitude : on standing and inertia in the Iliad / Kalliopi Nikolopoulou; title: Learning lessons from the Trojan War : Briseis and the theme of force / Casey Dué; title: Poulydamas and Hektor / Matthew Clark; title: Aias and the gods / William Duffy; title: Assembly and hospitality in the cyclôpeia / Rick M. Newton; title: Rewriting the Odyssey in the twenty; title: first century : Mary Zimmerman's Odyssey and Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad / Mihoko Zuzuki.