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Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes
By (Author) Robert Lamberton
Edited by John J. Keaney
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
1st July 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
883.01
Paperback
232
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven essays explore the ways in which the Illiad and the Odyssey have been read from the time of Homer through the Renaissance. By asking what questions ea