.

0 (hodnocen0 x )

EB

ONLINE

Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009

1 online resource (258 p.)

ISBN 0838642195 (alk. paper)

ISBN 9780838642191 (alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : why read Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades -- Homer as history : Greeks and others in a dark age / Shawn Ross -- Geras and guest gifts in Homer / Rick M. Newton -- Homer’s Odyssey, Books 19 and 23 : early recognition, a solution to the enigmas of ivory and horns, and the test of the bed / John B. Vlahos -- Conversation in the Odyssey / Scott Richardson -- The end of speeches and a speech’s end : Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthon / Joel Christensen -- Achilles’ heel : the historicism of the film Troy / Jonathan S. Burgess -- Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy / Charles C. Chiasson -- The Odyssey and Frank Capra’s It’s a wonderful life / Bruce Louden -- Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

001809930

full

(Au-PeEL)EBL3116009

(CaPaEBR)ebr10430859

(MiAaPQ)EBC3116009

(OCoLC)694147618