The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle / Jonathan S. Burgess.
2004
PA4037 .B84 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle / Jonathan S. Burgess.
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Edition
Johns Hopkins Pbks. ed.
ISBN
080187890X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, c2001.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 295 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PA4037 .B84 2004
Summary
Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of the Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.
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