Homer on Life and Death

by: Griffin, J.

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 Homer on life and death
Author:Jasper Griffin

The `Iliad' and `Odyssey' are not just good stories. Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on the persons and actions, and to interpret the world and human life and death. This book shows how this is done.

Contents:
Symbolic scenes and significant objects
Characterization
Death and the God-like hero
Death, Pathos, and Objectivity
Gods and goddesses
The divine audience and the religion of the Iliad

Includes indexes

Subjects:
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Dood
Epic poetry, Greek
Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism
Homer
Homer Philosophy
Homère Philosophie
Leven
Philosophy
Poésie épique grecque Histoire et critique

xvi, 218 pages ; 23 cm

Homer on Life and Death

by: Griffin, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780198140269 / 978-0-19-814026-9
• ISBN-03: 0198140266 / 0-19-814026-6
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983

Price: 58,00 EURO

1 copy in stock