Homer
Subtitle: Poet of the Iliad
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801840166
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature and the war; Greek Literature; Trojan War; Poetry; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Iliad; History and criticism; Ancient - General; Ancient and Classical; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Achilles (Greek mythology) in; Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature; Epic poetry, Greek; Homer
First sentence: Helen, to cheer her young visitors Telemachus and Peisistratus after the whole gathering has been weeping for the heroes lost at Troy, casts a tranquilizing drug into the wine and suggests they tell stories as they dine; she herself begins with the tale of Odysseus's visit to Troy in disguise (Odyssey 4.238ff.).