Homer and his Iliad /
Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date and a method for its composition, subjects of ongoing controversy, combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader's sensitivity. Lane Fox consid...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
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| Summary: | Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date and a method for its composition, subjects of ongoing controversy, combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader's sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem, its values, implicit and explicit, its characters, its women, its gods and even its horses. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 442 pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781541600447 1541600444 |