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Reading Homer : film and text /

These nine new essays on Homer's epics deal not only with major Homeric themes of time (honor), kleos (fame), geras (rewards), the psychology of Homeric warriors, and the re-evaluation of type scenes, but also with Homer's influence on contemporary film. Following the introduction and an e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Myrsiades, Kostas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : why read Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades
  • Homer as history : Greeks and others in a dark age / Shawn Ross
  • Geras and guest gifts in Homer / Rick M. Newton
  • 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
  • Conversation in the Odyssey / Scott Richardson
  • The end of speeches and a speech's end : Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthôn / Joel Christensen
  • Achilles' heel : the historicism of the film Troy / Jonathan S. Burgess
  • Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Charles C. Chiasson
  • The Odyssey and Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life / Bruce Louden
  • Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades.