Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed
Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed
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Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed by Ahuvia Kahane
Homer's poetry is widely recognized as the beginning of the literary tradition of the West and among its most influential canonical texts. Outlining a series of key themes, ideas, and values associated with Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed explores the question of the formation of the Iliad and the Odyssey - the so-called 'Homeric Problem'. Among the main Homeric themes which the book considers are origin and form, orality and composition, heroic values, social structure, and social bias, gender roles and gendered interpretation, ethnicity, representations of religion, mortality, and the divine, memory, poetry, and poetics, and canonicity and tradition, and the history of Homeric receptions. Drawing upon his extensive knowledge of scholarship on Homer and early epic, Ahuvia Kahane explores contemporary critical and philosophical questions relating to Homer and the Homeric tradition, and examines his wider cultural impact, contexts and significance. This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential poet, providing readers with some basic suggestions for further pursuing their interests in Homer.
Ahuvia Kahane provides a highly accessible and lucid survey covering a wide range of central aspects with an unobtrusive authority: metre, enjambment and ring composition are all here, clearly explained, but so is the latest archaeology from Hissarlik, the latest thinking on the historical setting..This is an excellent introduction to Homer aimed at students and general readers who want to understand the power and problems of Homeric poetry. It’s a book from which even those who feel themselves reasonably familiar with the poems are likely to learn new things. -- Professor Tony Spawforth, Chairman of the Judges, The Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 2013
Ahuvia Kahane is Professor of Greek and Director of the Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781441100108 |
| ISBN 10 | 1441100105 |
| Title | Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed |
| Author | Ahuvia Kahane |
| Series | Guides For The Perplexed |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2012-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |