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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Softcover. Good Condition. Well-preserved copy with minor signs of handling wear. Contents mostly clean and bright, with uncreased pages. Solid, secure bindings, spine intact. Publisher's note: "Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to conceptions of Imperial Hellenism. This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic - Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fictional dialogue Heroicus - and shows how their imaginative explorations of Homer and his relationship to history raise important questions about the nature of poetry and fiction, the identity and intentions of Homer himself, and the significance of the…
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- Title Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature
- Author Lawrence Kim
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 260
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2015. 260p. Paperback. Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World. Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so
- Date 2015-01-01
- ISBN 9781107485297 / 1107485290
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.55 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.40 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
- Dewey Decimal Code 883.01
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