Archaic Period (Greek Literature, Volume 2)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780815336839
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Europe; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; European - General; Greek literature; History and criticism
First sentence: The essential question in investigating the relationship between the Homeric poems and the epic stories painted on Archaic Greek vases is whether the painters were depicting, with characteristic artist license, the Iliad and Odyssey in the form in which we have inherited them.