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Homer and the epic : a shortened version of 'the songs of Homer' / by G.S. Kirk.
Penn Museum Library PA4037 .K46 1965
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirk, G. S. (Geoffrey Stephen), 1921-2003.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer.
- Homer. Iliad.
- Homer. Odyssey.
- Local Subjects:
- Homer. Iliad.
- Homer. Odyssey.
- Physical Description:
- x, 242 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] : University Press, 1965.
- Contents:
- The Homeric poems are oral
- Homer and modern oral poetry
- The rise of Mycenae
- Life in a Late Bronze Age palace-state
- From the Achaean decline to the time of Homer
- Poetical possibilities of the Dark Age
- Was there Achaean epic poetry?
- Dark Age elements and Aeolic elements
- Some basic qualities
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
- Subjects and styles
- The criterion of language
- Differences of material culture
- Structural differences in the Iliad
- Structural differences in the Odyssey
- Unity, real and imaginary
- The circumstances of monumental composition
- Two crucial phases of transmission
- The process of develeopment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kirk, G.S. (Geoffrey Stephen), 1921- Homer and the epic.
- OCLC:
- 349210
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