The Odyssey Re-Formed by Frederick Ahl
Frederick Ahl and Hanna M. Roisman offer a challenging new reading of the Odyssey that is directed to the general student of literature as well as to the classicist.Offers a lively and detailed reading of Homer's 'The Odyssey', episode by episode, with particular attention paid to the manipulative power of its language and Homer's skill in using that power
* The Midwest Book Review *Frederick Ahl is Professor of Classics and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. He is the author of a number of books, including Lucan: An Introduction, Seneca: Three Tragedies, and Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets. Hanna Roisman is Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities and Professor of Classics at Colby College. Hanna has published numerous journal articles and book chapters focusing on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod's didactic epics, Greek Elegy, the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and Classics and Contemporary Film and TV. She is the author of Loyalty in Early Greek Epic and Tragedy, Nothing is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides' Hippolytus, Sophocles: Philoctetes, and many other titles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801483356 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801483352 |
| Title | The Odyssey Re-Formed |
| Author | Frederick Ahl |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 1996-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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