Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

by Barbara Graziosi

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521809665
• ISBN13: 9780521809665
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"