Ages Of Homer; Editor: Carter, Jane B.; Editor: Morris, Sarah P.; Hardback; Book

Editor: Carter, Jane B.; Editor: Morris, Sarah P.
Hardback; Book
Published: May 1998
University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292712081

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey have fascinated listeners and readers for over twenty-five centuries. In this volume of original essays, collected to honor the distinguished career of Emily T. Vermeule, thirty-four leading experts in Homeric studies and related fields provide up-to-date, multidisciplinary accounts of the most current issues in the study of Homer. The book is divided into three sections. The first section treats the Bronze Age setting of the poems (around 1200 B.C.), using archaeological evidence to reveal how poetic memory preserves, distorts, and invents the past. The second section explores the early Iron Age, in which the poems were written (c. 800-500 B.C.), using the strategies of comparative philology and mythology, literary theory, historical linguistics, anthroBrings together 31 articles that use techniques of analysis from comparative philology and mythology, literary theory, historical linguistics, anthropology, and iconography applied to two millennia of literature and artifacts from Minoan Crete to the Roman period, in order to shed light on the Homer