INVENTING HOMER The Early Reception of Epic

Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0521809665 . Very light bump to base of spine. Very faint foxing to top of textblock. Else book is fine. DJ spine lightly sunned. Minor shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 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". 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". 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". 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".; Cambridge Classical Studies; 300 pages .