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Homer Between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature

By Lawrence Kim

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521194490, 9780521194495
LCC
PA3086 .K56 2010
Google Books ID
K7Bg3zRom6QC
Open Library ID
OL24423584M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1148306 bytes)
Series
Greek Culture in the Roman World
Edition
1
Pages
260\260
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Литературоведение;Изучение зарубежной литературы;А

Description

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 heroic past and Homeric authority in Imperial Greek culture.

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