Homer between history and fiction in imperial Greek literature /

"Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek hist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kim, Lawrence Young, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Greek culture in the Roman world.
Temas:
Homer > In literature.
Homer.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Trojan War > Literature and the war.
Literature and history > Greece.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > Grèce.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Greek literature.
Literature.
Literature and history.
Greece.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Imperial Homer, history, and fiction
  • Homer, poet and historian: Herodotus and Thucydides
  • Homer, the ideal geographer : Strabo's Geography
  • Homer the liar: Dio Chrysostom's Trojan Oration
  • Homer on the island. Lucian's True Stories
  • Ghosts at Troy: Philostratus' Heroicus
  • Epilogue.

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