TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane Fox,Robin
TI  - Homer and his Iliad
SN  - 9781541600447
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Homer.
KW  - Homer
KW  - Trojan War
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: enigmatic Homer -- Part 1. Homer and his Iliad: where? -- 'When first they quarreled...' -- Doing things with words -- Tracking Homer -- Homer's heartland -- Unstitching the Iliad -- Plotting an epic -- Part II. Composing the Iliad: how? -- 'Sing, o goddess...' -- Homeric fieldwork -- Singers of tales -- The uses of analogy -- A great dictator -- Part III. Composing the Iliad: when? -- Problems of literacy -- Trojan Wars -- 'Not as mortal men are now...' -- Dating Homer -- In transmission -- Part IV. Heroic hallmarks. -- Heroism: the highlights -- 'Not ingloriously may I die...' -- 'If it must be so...' -- Heroic ethics -- Heroes at play -- Heroism and hyper-reality -- Shame and glory -- Character and background -- Equine poetics -- Swift-footed Achilles -- Part V. Parallel worlds. -- The heavenly family -- Sublime frivolity? -- White-armed women -- Royal mothers -- The natural world -- 'As when...' -- The shield of Achilles -- Ruthless Poignancy
N2  - Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition--subjects of ongoing controversy--combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader's sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses
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