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Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198140169 . Dustjacket spine is sunned. Minor edgewear to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; 234 pages; 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. .
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THE poet of the Iliad created a poem larger in scale than the ordinary epics of his time, and he organized and unified it on a different principle.
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- Title Homer on Life and Death
- Author Griffin; Jasper Griffin
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 218
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
- Date July 1993
- ISBN 9780198140160 / 0198140169
- Weight 95 lbs (43.09 kg)
- Library of Congress subjects Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism, Homer - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 79-41140
- Dewey Decimal Code 883.01
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HOMER ON LIFE AND DEATH
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