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Homeric moments, clues to delight in reading the Odyssey and the Iliad, Eva Brann

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Homeric moments, clues to delight in reading the Odyssey and the Iliad, Eva Brann

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Homeric moments

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

49680104

Responsibility statement

Eva Brann

Sub title

clues to delight in reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

Table Of Contents

Gods -- Odysseus : his looks and transformations -- Odysseus : his nature -- Heroes -- Odysseus at Troy -- Ajax the silent -- Brief Achilles and enduring Odysseus -- Hephaestus' world : the shield -- Patroclus the friend -- Achilles the unwitting liar -- Hector the holder -- The plan of Zeus -- Achilles as Hades and Achilles in Hades -- Beginnings and endings -- The returns -- The poet of the Odyssey -- Naïveté and insight -- Beauty and craft -- Visibility and visuality -- Simile : the double vision -- Name tags and speaking names -- Telemachus and his telemachy -- Nestor at home -- Helen at Troy and Helen at home -- The stations and sightings of Odysseus' odyssey -- Asleep on the watch -- The poet of the Odyssey -- The fame of men and women -- Odysseus' odyssey I : first through sixth adventure -- Odysseus in Hades : seventh adventure -- The wooers in Hades -- The treasure house of the Greeks -- Odysseus' odyssey II : eighth through tenth adventure -- Calypso who conceals : eleventh adventure -- Phaeacia the artists' colony : twelfth adventure -- The locales and settings of Homer's Odyssey -- The liar's goddess -- The Cretan liar -- Lying tales versus fairy tales -- Telemachus returns -- Odysseus and Telemachus : convergence -- Penelope the kingly queen -- Suitors and servants -- Crisis -- At first sight -- Testing -- Time chasms -- Twice told and thrice dead

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