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      Homer and His Critics

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      Homer and His Critics book

      ByJohn Myres
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1958
      eBook Published 31 July 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777849
      Pages 324
      eBook ISBN 9781315777849
      Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Myres, J. (1958). Homer and His Critics (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777849

      ABSTRACT

      Here is presented a succinct and insightful account of the reception of the Iliad and Odyssey from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. The overall result is less a systematic history than a series of independent studies differing in scale and focus, the chapter on Gladstone being the most comprehensive and detailed. First published in 1958.

      The author gives greatest attention to those who made active use of Homer rather than passive, even if admiring, readers: Virgil because he wrote the Aeneid, Gladstone because he brought him to prominence in Oxford education, Wood because he sought out the geography and Schliemann because he dug for the kings. The emphasis is thus placed less on the purely academic critic than on the traveller and the innovative amateur.

      A valuable contribution to a subject of perennial fascination, this will be of interest to all students and teachers of the classics.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|10 pages

      HOMERIC CRITICISM: THE MEANS AND THE END

      chapter 2|25 pages

      HOMER AND HIS CRITICS IN ANTIQUITY

      chapter 3|18 pages

      FROM THE GESTE DE TROIE TO BENTLEY

      chapter 4|15 pages

      POET AND PAINTER

      chapter 5|25 pages

      FRIEDERICH AUGUST WOLF

      chapter 6|37 pages

      GLADSTONE’S VIEW OF HOMER

      chapter 7|34 pages

      THE EPIC OF THE SPADE: 1 HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN

      chapter 8|40 pages

      THE EPIC OF THE SPADE: 2 THE HOMERIC WORLD

      chapter 9|26 pages

      ULRICH VON WILAMOWITZ-MOELLENDORFF

      chapter 10|29 pages

      JOHN LINTON MYRES

      chapter 11|43 pages

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