Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book looks at stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth, name and origin, blindness and his relationship to other poets and his descendants. The work studies the ancient reception of the Homeric poems, and looks at it in relation to modern representations of Homer, ancient and modern conceptions of authorship, and the "Homeric Question".

Frontispiece
Preface
List of abbreviations of editions and works of reference
Introduction
The birth of Homer
Homer-s name and his place of origin
The date of Homer
Blindness, poverty and closeness to the gods
Homer-s relationship to other poets
The heirs of Homer
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of passages
General index
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Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

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