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Authors: Jasper Griffin
ISBN-13: 9780198140269, ISBN-10: 0198140266
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: December 1983
Edition: New Edition
This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profound.