Homer
Subtitle: the origins and the transmission
By: by Thomas W. Allen.
Publisher: The Clarendon press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.; Homer -- Literary style.; Homer.; Homer.
Notes: Reprint of the 1924 edition.
Table of contents: title: Origins. Lives of Homer -- Homeridae -- Epic cycle and Homeric hymns -- Hesiod -- Language -- Argos, Danai, Achaei -- Dictys of Crete : the heroic chronicle -- Scheme of the Iliad and Odyssey -- Transmission. Additions to the poems -- Pisistratus and Homer -- Early quotations -- Editions current 300 B. C : papyri -- Origin of the vulgate -- Appendix : corrections and additions to the Homeric catalogue, Oxford, 1921.