Updating the 1962 Companion to Homer , scholars from Europe and America offer 30 overviews of the current ideas and controversies in the many specialist divisions of Homeric studies, including
literary, mythological, linguistic, historical, and archaeological. Their topics include Homeric papyri and the transmission of the text, dialect, meter, oral poetics, the structure and
interpretation of the Iliad , modern theoretical approaches, quantifying epic, Homer and Hesiod, the Bronze Age and Iron Age, Greek art, the Near East, society, warfare, and ethics. Annotation
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