Author: J. B. Hainsworth
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: eidos, epic, idea
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1991-01-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520068149
ISBN-13: 9780520068148

The idea of epic is elusive. The classical tradition of epic poetry emerged from the heroic poetry of one tribe of one people, the Ionian Greeks. The fame of the Iliad and Odyssey inspired emulators and created a genre which remained in high favor throughout the classical epoch and was revived in the Renaissance. Modern literature, however, has neglected it and the word "epic" no longer connotes a literary form. J. B. Hainsworth explores the development of the epic genre, the causes of its success in classical literature, and the reasons for the failure of the genre after its triumphs in the R

Author: R. Hainsworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: receptors, cardiac
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 1980-01-31
List price: $99.50
ISBN-10: 0521218535
ISBN-13: 9780521218535

Authors:Bryan Hainsworth, G. S. Kirk,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: iliad, commentary, books, volume
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 1993-02-26
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521281733
ISBN-13: 9780521281737

The six-volume Commentary on Homer’s Iliad prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk is complete with the publication of this volume. It opens with two introductory chapters: the first on Homeric diction, the second on the contributions that comparative studies have made to seeing the Homeric epics in sharper perspective. In the commentary Dr. Hainsworth confronts the serious problems posed by the ninth, tenth and twelfth books of the Iliad. The Greek text is not included.