Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern

by Robert J. Rabel (Editor)

Overview

Ten new essays, from a distinguished cast of (mainly) North American scholars, approach Homer with insights gained from the modern disciplines of psychology and anthropology, narratology, oral theory and cognitive research. But the contributors also attend to ancient modes of approach to the Homeric poems: linguistic and narratological, ethical and psyhological. The volume focuses both on literary technique in the poems, and on the portrayal of characters and peoples, central and marginal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905125043
Publisher:	Classical Press of Wales, The
Publication date:	12/31/2005
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Robert J. Rabel is Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Plot and Point of View in the Iliad (University of Michigan Press, 1997) and various articles on Greek and Roman literature. Much of his recent work centers on the relationship between Classics and film.

Table of Contents

Demodokos' Iliad and Homer's - Donna F. Wilson The patterning of the similes in Book 2 of the Iliad - William C. Scott Homer on autobiographical memory: the case of Nestor - Elizabeth Minchin Similes for Odysseus and Penelope: mortality, divinity, identity - James V. Morrison Telemakhos' one sneeze and Penelope's two laughs (Odyssey 17. 541-50, 18. 158-68) - Donald Lateiner Old men and chirping cicadas in the Teichoskopia - Hanna M. Roisman The death of Achilles by Rhapsodes - Jonathan S. Burgess The Ciconians, revisited (Homer, Odyssey 9. 39-66) - Rick M. Newton Odysseus' ethnographic digressions - Ruth Scodel The art of creative listening in the Odyssey - Robert J. Rabel