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Author Manguel, Alberto.

Title Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey : a biography / Alberto Manguel.

Edition First American edition.
Publication Info. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2007]
©2007
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1063117~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  883.01 HOM    AVAILABLE
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Description vi, 285 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Books that changed the world series
Books that changed the world (New York, N.Y.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Summaries of the Books -- A life of Homer? -- Among the philosophers -- Virgil -- Christian Homer -- Other Homers -- Homer in Islam -- Dante -- Homer in Hell -- Greek versus Latin -- Ancients versus moderns -- Homer as poetry -- Realms of gold -- Homer as idea -- The eternal feminine -- Homer as symbol -- Homer as history -- Madame Homer -- Ulysses' travels -- Homer through the looking glass -- The never-ending war -- Everyman.
Subject Homer. Iliad.
Homer. Odyssey.
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
Epic poetry, Greek.
Trojan War -- Poetry.
Odysseus (Greek mythology)
Achilles (Greek mythology)
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
ISBN 9780871139764
0871139766
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