Homer and the Sacred City (Myth and Poetics) - Softcover

Scully, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080148202X ISBN 13: 9780801482021

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1994

Synopsis

The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the Iliad, as well as the collision of the individual fates of its characters, which generates its most profound tragic themes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 080148202X
• ISBN 13: 9780801482021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248