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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Folktales in Homer's Odyssey	Denys Lionel Page	141 p. 22 cm	OL1180869W
An introduction to Homer	William Anthony Camps	Attempts to characterize the poetic art of the Iliad and Odyssey and to analyze in a simple way the reason for its effectiveness.	OL11915955W
Battle and battle description in Homer	Franz Albracht	140 pages ; 24 cm	OL12284381W
L' epica perduta	Andrea Debiasi	311 pages : 24 cm	OL13074354W
History	Herodotus	One of the earliest histories of the western world still extant, this gives a contemporary account of the Greco-Persian wars of the fifth century BCE with the rise of the Achaemenid Empire under Cyru…	OL15678068W
Crazy Horse, a great warrior of the Sioux	Shannon Garst	A biography of the Oglala Sioux Indian first called Has-ka, the light-skinned one, who won the name Crazy Horse and grew up to lead his people in unified and relentless warfare against the whites.	OL157374W
Homer's Trojan theater	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…	OL15976383W
Becoming Achilles	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…	OL16576688W
Why Homer matters	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…	OL19665340W
L'Odyssée	Bruno Pilorget,Michel Woronoff	Poem by Homer describing the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy as he encounters gods and monsters.	OL21583193W
Argonautika	Apollonius Rhodius	"Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the third century B.C.E., is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with his contemporaries Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollo…	OL2382363W
Archery at the Dark of the Moon	Norman Austin	A very important book for the serious student of Homer, the great Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. The author is a classics professor with a fine writing style and a very stimulating …	OL3953924W
Translations of Homer	Όμηρος	Eric Nelson presents a critical edition of the translation of Homer's 'Iliad' composed by the great 17th century philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes. Nelson shows that these translations…	OL415422W
Homeric moments	Eva T. H. Brann	"Eva Brann demonstrates a way of reading Homer's poems that yields up their hidden treasures. With an alert eye for Homer's extraordinary visual effects and a keen ear for the musicality of his langu…	OL4480455W
The mourner's song	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,…	OL4629236W
Epos	Michael Lynn-George	xii, 302 p. ; 23 cm	OL4745725W
The making of Homeric verse	Milman Parry	lxii, 483 p., 2 plates. 24 cm	OL4968731W
Homer	Mark W. Edwards	Combines a general introduction and a detailed commentary to make insights of recent Homeric scholarship accessible to students and general readers as well as to classicists.	OL5270286W
Ὀδύσσεια	Όμηρος	The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem i…	OL61982W
The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle	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…	OL7795683W