The Best of the Achaeans
Subtitle: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
Edition: revised edition edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780801860157
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Poetry; Heroes in literature; Greek Literature; History - General History; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Ancient Greece; Ancient - General; Ancient and Classical; History / Ancient / General; Characters; Epic poetry, Greek; Heroes; History and criticism; Homer
First sentence: 1. My approach to archaic Greek poetry is based on two major working assumptions.