Reading Homer
Subtitle: film and text
By: edited by Kostas Myrsiades.
Contributors: Myrsiades, Kostas.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838642191
Subjects: Homer -- Criticism and interpretation; Homer -- Influence; Troy (Motion picture); Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc; Mythology in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why read Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades; title: Homer as history : Greeks and others in a dark age / Shawn Ross; title: Geras and guest gifts in Homer / Rick Newton; title: Homer's Odyssey, Books 19 and 23 : early recognition, a solution to the enigmas of ivory and horns, and the test of the bed / John B. Vlahos; title: Conversation in the Odyssey / Scott Richardson; title: The end of speeches and a speech's end : Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthon / Joel Christensen; title: Achilles' heel : the historicism of the film Troy / Jonathan S. Burgess; title: Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Charles C. Chiasson; title: The odyssey and Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life / Bruce Louden; title: Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades.