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Kleos in a Minor Key
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: J. C. B. Petropoulos
Categories: Education of princes in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey distinctly supposes an oral narrative--principally an "oral history," a "life story" or ultimately an "oral traditio
Homer
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Jonathan S. Burgess
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-13 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, i
Reading Homer’s Odyssey
Language: en
Pages: 365
Authors: Kostas Myrsiades
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-05 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Reading Homer's Odyssey is a book by book commentary on the epic's major themes. Each of the epic's 24 books are divided into sections to stress the length and
Para-narratives in the Odyssey
Language: en
Pages: 437
Authors: Maureen Alden
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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'Para-Narratives in the Odyssey' is a full-length study in English of the function and significance of secondary 'para-narratives' in the poem and their relatio
The Sculptor and his Stone
Language: en
Pages: 173
Authors: Chrysostomos
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-26 - Publisher: James Clarke & Company

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This book argues for the inseparability of classical Hellenism from the Greek patristic tradition from a distinctly Eastern Orthodox perspective. Postulating a