Homer

This concise book is an ideal introduction to Homer - the poet and his two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Student-friendly introduction to Homer. Provides historical background and literary readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Makes use of the author's own original research. Assumes no prior knowledge of Greek.

Barry B. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Preface

viii

Chronological Chart

x

Maps

xiii

Introduction

xv

Part 1 Background

1

(62)

1 The Philologist's Homer

3

(32)

2 The Historian's Homer

35

(16)

3 The Reader's Homer

51

(12)

Part II The Poems

63

(99)

4 The Iliad

65

(49)

5 The Odyssey

114

(41)

6 Conclusion and Summary

155

(7)

Notes

162

(2)

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