Tag: Homer

Free Download Homer and His Iliad (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGGJR2T | 2023 | 16 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 478 MB
Author: Robin Lane Fox
Narrator: Steve John Shepherd
A groundbreaking reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful. The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem-heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition-subjects of ongoing controversy-combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader’s sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses. Thousands of listeners turn to the Iliad every year. Drawing on 50 years of listening and research, Lane Fox offers us a breathtaking tour of this magnificent text, revealing why the poem has endured for ages.

Free Download The Revelation of Imagination: From Homer and the Bible through Virgil and Augustine to Dante by William Franke
English | August 17, 2015 | ISBN: 0810131196 | 424 pages | PDF | 2.26 Mb
In The Revelation of Imagination, William Franke attempts to focus on what is enduring and perennial rather than on what is accommodated to the agenda of the moment. Franke’s book offers re-actualized readings of representative texts from the Bible, Homer, and Virgil to Augustine and Dante. The selections are linked together in such a way as to propose a general interpretation of knowledge. They emphasize, moreover, a way of articulating the connection of humanities knowledge with what may, in various senses, be called divine revelation. This includes the sort of inspiration to which poets since Homer have typically laid claim, as well as that proper to the biblical tradition of revealed religion. The Revelation of Imagination invigorates the ongoing discussion about the value of humanities as a source of enduring knowledge.

Free Download Zdravko Planinc, "Plato through Homer: Poetry and Philosophy in the Cosmological Dialogues"
English | 2003 | pages: 148 | ISBN: 0826214797 | PDF | 0,8 mb
This new study challenges traditional ways of reading Plato by showing that his philosophy and political theory cannot be understood apart from a consideration of the literary or aesthetic features of his writing. More specifically, it shows how Plato’s well-known cosmological dialogues-the Phaedrus, Timaeus, and Critias-are structured using several books of the Odyssey as their shared source text.