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Homer a guide for the perplexed / Ahuvia Kahane.

by Kahane, Ahuvia.

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.

Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.

Greek literature -- History and criticism.

Guides for the perplexed

9781441100108 (pbk.)

vii, 211 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Homer's poetry is widely recognized as the beginning of the literary tradition of the West and among its most influential canonical texts. Outlining a series of key themes, ideas, and values associated with Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed explores the question of the formation of the Iliad and the Odyssey--the so-called 'Homeric Problem'. Among the main Homeric themes which the book considers are origin and form, orality and composition, heroic values, social structure, and social bias, gender roles and gendered interpretation, ethnicity, representations of religion, mortality, and the divine, memory, poetry, and poetics, and canonicity and tradition, and the history of Homeric receptions."--From publisher.

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