Homer and the Sacred City

by Stephen Scully

Book Overview

The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080148202X
• ISBN13: 9780801482021
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"