Lexington Books
Pages: 306
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0695-2 • Hardback • July 2003 • $139.00 • (£107.00)
978-0-7391-0696-9 • Paperback • June 2003 • $51.99 • (£40.00)
Samuel Bassett was professor at the University of Vermont from 1905 to his death in 1936. Although he wrote extensively on Homer, The Poetry of Homer was his only book. Bruce Heiden, Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University, is the author of Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae, as well as many articles on Homeric poetry.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Editor's Introduction
Chapter 3 An Important Homeric Problem and its Postulates
Chapter 4 The Epic Illusion
Chapter 5 The Epic Illusion (Continued)
Chapter 6 The Breaking of the Epic Illusion
Chapter 7 The Poet and His Audience
Chapter 8 The Poet as Singer
Chapter 9 Homer the Poetic Demiurge
Chapter 10 The Poet as Realist and as Idealist
This is the best book on Homer in the Engligh language.
— Necj Reviews