The world of Odysseus / M.I. Finley ; introduction by Bernard Knox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finley, M. I. (Moses I.), 1912-1986.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer. Odyssey.

Homer.

Homer--Knowledge and learning--History.

History.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)--In literature.

Odysseus.

Social history--To 500.

Social history.

Civilization, Homeric.

Troy (Extinct city).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi, 205 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2002]

Summary:

"The World of Odysseus" is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history of the ancient world, M.I. Finley's brilliant study remains, as classicist Bernard Knox notes in his introduction to this new edition, "as indispensable to the professional as it is accessible to the general reader"--a fundamental companion for students of Homer and Homeric Greece.

Contents:

1. Homer and the Greeks 5

2. Bards and Heroes 18

3. Wealth and Labor 46

4. Household, Kin, and Community 71

5. Morals and Values 109

Appendix I The World of Odysseus Revisited 147

Appendix II Schliemann's Troy

One Hundred Years After 166.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and indexes.

ISBN:

1590170172

OCLC:

49225379