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Battle and battle description in Homer
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Franz Albracht |
140 pages ; 24 cm |
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Beowulf
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Elaine Strong Skill |
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feat… |
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Heroic identity in the world of Beowulf
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Scott Gwara |
"Readers of Beowulf have noted inconsistencies in Beowulf's depiction, as either heroic or reckless. Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf resolves this tension by emphasizing Beowulf's identity as… |
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Satirae
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Horace |
The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with … |
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Homer's Trojan theater
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Jenny Strauss Clay |
"Moving away from the verbal and thematic repetitions that have dominated Homeric studies and exploiting the insights of cognitive psychology, this highly innovative and accessible study focuses on t… |
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Exemplary epic
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Ben Tipping |
The force of example was a distinctive determiner of Roman identity. In this study of the representation of certain central characters in Silius Italicus' 'Punica', Ben Tipping considers the virtues … |
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Becoming Achilles
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Richard Holway |
Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites individual and communal catharsis and denial. Sacrificial childrearing generates but al… |
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Why Homer matters
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Adam Nicolson |
"In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters--to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through myth… |
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The Chanson des chétifs and Chanson de Jérusalem
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Carol Sweetenham |
"The publication of this new translation of the Jérusalem and the Chétifs allows readers to take a complete view of this poetic trilogy about the First Crusade as the author originally intended. It m… |
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The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile
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William C. Scott |
This work, by Dartmouth Professor Emeritus William Scott, centers on Homer's similes as compositions derived from, and dependent on, an oral tradition. |
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The stranger's welcome
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Steve Reece |
This is a book about the rituals of hospitality (xenia) in Homer. But it is only secondarily so; it could just as well be about sacrifice, assembly, arming, or any of a number of frequently recurrin… |
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The mourner's song
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James Tatum |
"In The Mourner's Song, James Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war, from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the writings of Stephen Crane,… |
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Epos
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Michael Lynn-George |
xii, 302 p. ; 23 cm |
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King of the Wood
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Julia T. Dyson |
"In King of the Wood, Julia T. Dyson offers a radical reinterpretation of Virgil's Aeneid. She persuasively argues that Aeneas' final sacrifice of Turnus, which has perpetually troubled readers, is d… |
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CliffsNotes Chaucer's The Canterbury tales
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James Lamar Roberts |
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feat… |
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The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle
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Jonathan S. Burgess |
"Much of our understanding of the mythological tradition surrounding the Trojan War comes from Homer. Although the Iliad and Odyssey describe only the last years of this conflict, for centuries these… |
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