328 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
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Here is presented a succinct and insightful account of the reception of the Iliad and Odyssey from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. The overall result is less a systematic history than a series of independent studies differing in scale and focus, the chapter on Gladstone being the most comprehensive and detailed. First published in 1958.
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Preface. 1. Homeric Criticism: The Means and the End 2. Homer and His Critics in Antiquity 3. From the Geste de Troie to Bentley 4. Poet and Painter 5. Friederich August Wolf 6. Gladstone’s View of Homer 7. The Epic of the Spade: Heinrich Schliemann 8. The Epic of the Spade: The Homeric World 9. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff; Continuation by Dorothea Gray 10. John Linton Myres 11. The Last Decade
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John Myres
