TY - BOOK AU - Fowler,R.L. TI - The Cambridge companion to Homer SN - 0521813026 AV - PA4037 .C258 2004 U1 - 883/.01 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Homer KW - Epic poetry, Greek KW - History and criticism KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Mythology, Greek, in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. The poems and their narrator. The Iliad : an unpredictable classic / Donald Lateiner ; The Odyssey and its explorations / Michael Silk ; The story-teller and his audience / Ruth Scodel -- pt. 2. The characters. The Gods in the Homeric epics / Emily Kearns ; Manhood and heroism / Michael Clarke ; Gender and Homeric epic / Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin -- pt. 3. The poet's craft. Formulas, metre and type-scenes / Matthew Clark ; Similes and other likenesses / Richard Buxton ; The speeches / Jasper Griffin -- pt. 4. Text and context. Epic as genre / John Miles Foley ; The epic tradition in Greece / Ken Dowden ; Homer's society / Robin Osborne ; The Homeric question / Robert Fowler -- pt. 5. Homeric receptions. Homer and Greek literature / Richard Hunter ; Roman Homer / Joseph Farrell ; Homer and English epic / Penelope Wilson ; Homer and the Romantics / Timothy Webb ; Homer and Ulysses / Vanda Zajko ; Homer : the history of an idea / James I. Porter ; "Shards and suckers" : contemporary receptions of Homer / Lorna Hardwick ; Homer in English translation / George Steiner UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005279822-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005279822-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2005279822-b.html ER -