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1 online resource (xi, 246 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Greek culture in the Roman world
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Greek culture in the Roman world.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Imperial Homer, history, and fiction -- Homer, poet and historian: Herodotus and Thucydides -- Homer, the ideal geographer : Strabo's Geography -- Homer the liar: Dio Chrysostom's Trojan Oration -- Homer on the island. Lucian's True Stories -- Ghosts at Troy: Philostratus' Heroicus -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
"Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to conceptions of Imperial Hellenism. This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic - Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fictional dialogue Heroicus - and shows how their imaginative explorations of Homer and his relationship to history raise important questions about the nature of poetry and fiction, the identity and intentions of Homer himself, and the significance of the heroic past and Homeric authority in Imperial Greek culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homer -- In literature.
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Homer. |
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Trojan War |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Trojan War -- Literature and the war.
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Trojan War. |
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Literature and history -- Greece.
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Literature and history. |
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Greece. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kim, Lawrence Young, 1970- Homer between history and fiction in imperial Greek literature. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521194495 (DLC) 2010029759 (OCoLC)502037217 |
| ISBN |
9780511909474 (electronic book) |
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0511909470 (electronic book) |
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9780511906688 (electronic book) |
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0511906684 (electronic book) |
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9780511907968 (electronic book) |
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0511907966 (electronic book) |
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9780521194495 (hardback) |
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0521194490 (hardback) |
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