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Free Download Reading the Odyssey: A Guide to Homer’s Narrative by Jonas Grethlein
English | November 12th, 2024 | ISBN: 0691182493 | 328 pages | True EPUB | 23.77 MB
A fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey-and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our lives

Free Download Harold Bloom, "Homer’s The Iliad (Bloom’s Guides)"
English | 2006 | pages: 123 | ISBN: 0791082407 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Along with the Odyssey, Homer’s epic poem about the Trojan War is one of the great masterpieces of ancient Greek literature.

Free Download M. J. Clarke, B. G. F. Currie, R. O. A. M. Lyne, "Epic Interactions: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition Presented to Jasper Griffin by Former Pupils"
English | 2006 | pages: 456 | ISBN: 0199276307 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This collection of essays, written by former pupils, celebrates the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic. The volume surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. Individual chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context; the Augustan poets and the Aeneid; Statius’ Thebaid; Old English and Old Irish epic; Renaissance epic: Tasso and Milton; and the Victorians. The aim of the book is to situate writers of epic in their literary and cultural contexts-an enterprise captured in the term "interaction" in the title. The chapters singly offer insights into some of the foundational poems of the European epic tradition and together take a bold, holistic look at that tradition.

Free Download Jonathan L. Ready, "The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Iliad "
English | ISBN: 0198869878 | 2024 | 336 pages | PDF | 14 MB
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 Description 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 poem in the same manner in which they read it: book by book. Differing from other introductions to the Iliad that comprise chapters on specific topics and themes, the volume offers accessible and actionable discussions of concepts pertinent to each book of the poem. Differing from other introductory volumes that are written by a single author, this volume allows for a polyphony of critical voices and showcases the diversity of approaches to the

Free Download The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle By Jonathan S. Burgess
2001 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0801866529 | PDF | 2 MB
Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the conflict, particularly the poems known as the Epic Cycle. In The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, Jonathan Burgess challenges Homer’s authority on the war’s history and the legends surrounding it, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age. He traces the development and transmission of the Cyclic poems in ancient Greek culture, comparing them to later Homeric poems and finding that they were far more influential than has previously been thought.

Free Download Homer in English By George Steiner (editor)
1996 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0140446214 | PDF | 14 MB
‘The Iliad and Odyssey,’ writes Professor George Steiner, ‘are perennially active in the pulse of the English languages, in the texts and contexts of Anglo-Saxon self-definition; these translations and variations on Homeric themes offer nothing less than ‘a concise chronicle of English’.From Lydgate’s Troy Book, Chaucer’s Troylus and Criseyde and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida to Pound’s Cantos, Joyce’s Ulysses and Derek Walcott’s Omeros, Homer has been the most translated author and presence in our literature and languages (such as American and Afro-Caribbean). Homer has elicited a fantastic wealth and quality of response, from Hobbes to Gladstone, from T. E. Lawrence to Robert Graves. Homeric translations by Chapman, Dryden, Pope, Shelley and Christopher Logue are masterpieces in their own right. This superb selection assembles highlights and representative moments from six and a half centuries.

Free Download Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad By Alice Oswald; Eavan Boland
2012 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0393088677 | EPUB | 1 MB
In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad-the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen-in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer’s glance. The resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work that gives new voice to Homer’s level-voiced version of the world. Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence becomes a meditation on the loss of human life.

Free Download Charles Underwood, "Homer The Odyssey"
English | ISBN: 0761873686 | 2022 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 574 KB + 2 MB
The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic about the challenges and hardships Odysseus faces in his rambling ten-year journey homeward after the Trojan War and in the days following his arrival on the island of Ithaka, his homeland. Depicting his own and others’ social displacement after the war, and describing his successive challenges against human, natural and supernatural adversaries, the epic dramatizes his problematic process of healing from the trauma of war and his slow, arduous attempt to recover a sense of personal identity among his people, his wife, his son, and others who have longed for his return. In depicting the struggles of Odysseus, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemakhos, as well as key minor characters such as the slaves Eurykleia and Eumaios, in response to their social displacement, The Odyssey offers us literature’s first full-length narrative focused on the everyday heroism of ordinary human beings in the face of implacable misfortune and adversity.

Free Download Vincent Tomasso, "Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire "
English | ISBN: 1032456566 | 2023 | 152 pages | EPUB, PDF | 858 KB + 25 MB
This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgias for audiences.

Free Download Homer and His Iliad, US Edition by Robin Lane Fox
English | October 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 1541600444 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 30.82 MB
A "compelling and impressive" (Sunday Times) reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful