Daily life in the time of Homer.
By: Translated from the French by Iris Sells.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Homer.; Greece -- Civilization.; Greece -- Social life and customs.
Work titles: Vie quotidienne au temps d'Homère.
Notes: 52154
Table of contents: title: The background and setting -- The manor house -- The life of a nobleman -- The religious and intellectual professions -- Peasants and soldiers -- The lower classes and the cultivation of the land -- Public workers and craftsmen -- Blood vengeance and the family -- Homer’s women -- Popular festivals, funeral rites, public games -- Wanderers and expatriates -- Homer’s message.