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The Cambridge Companion to Homer
Author: Robert Fowler
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ReviewThis fine installment in the Cambridge Companions to Literature series comprises 22 terse, original essays by recognized scholars and critics. The essays range over five areas of special concern in modern Homeric studies. Highly recommended. CHOICE May 2005Advanced readers of Homer will find much to interest them in these pages the individual essays make stimulating points for those who already know a lot about Homer. - Deborah Beck, Swarthmore College Book DescriptionEver since antiquity the two Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, have been considered to be masterpieces, and their influence on subsequent Greek and Western literature has been immeasurable. In this volume an international team of experts discusses the poems, their background and composition, and, most originally, their subsequent reception down to the present day. Each chapter communicates the best of contemporary scholarship and offer new critical insights of its own, and closes with a guide to further reading on the topic.
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