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  • The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad

    by Jonathan L. Ready ...
    Series series Oxford Critical Guides
    The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing both close readings of individual passages and synthetic reviews of current scholarship. This format allows readers to study the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Homer in Performance

    Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters

    Edited by Jonathan L. Ready, Christos C. Tsagalis ...
    Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes ... Read more

    Was $49.99 USD Now $35.99 USD

  • Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics

    An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts

    by Jonathan L. Ready ...
    Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what about Homeric texts prior to the emergence of standardized written texts? Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics sheds light on that earlier history by drawing on scholarship from outside the discipline of classical studies to query from three different angles what it means to ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad

    by Prof Jonathan L. Ready ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad explains why people care about this foundational epic poem and its characters. It represents the first book-length application to ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives

    Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia

    by Jonathan L. Ready ...
    The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia investigates both the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from neglected comparative perspectives, offering a revealing exploration of what made the epics such powerful examples of verbal artistry. Divided into two parts, the volume first considers similes in five ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad

    by Jonathan L. Ready ...
    Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. This study concentrates primarily on similes spoken by Homeric characters. The first to offer a sustained exploration of such similes, Ready shows how characters are made to contest through and over simile not only with one another but also with the narrator. Ready ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks

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    It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects different from our own, and that recognizing these differences is important to understanding ancient ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Homer

    Edited by Robert Fowler ...
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    The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional ... Read more

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  • Homer

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    Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become a mythical figure, and even today the debate continues as to whether he ever existed. Barbara ... Read more

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