Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

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".

Author: Barbara Graziosi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/20/2002
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.88h x 5.82w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780521809665

About the Author
Graziosi, Barbara: - Barbara Graziosi is currently Lecturer in Greek at the University of Reading. She was educated in Trieste, Oxford and Cambridge and in 1999-2000 held a Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford. Her doctoral thesis, on which the present book is based, has been shortlisted for the Hellenic Foundation's Annual Prize for the best doctoral thesis.

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