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Author Kim, Lawrence Young, 1970- author.

Title Homer between history and fiction in imperial Greek literature / by Lawrence Kim
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages)
Series Greek culture in the Roman world
Greek culture in the Roman world.
Contents Introduction: Imperial Homer, history, and fiction -- Homer, poet and historian: Herodotus and Thucydides -- Homer, the ideal geographer : Strabo's Geography -- Homer the liar: Dio Chrysostom's Trojan Oration -- Homer on the island. Lucian's True Stories -- Ghosts at Troy: Philostratus' Heroicus -- Epilogue
Summary "Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to conceptions of Imperial Hellenism. This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic - Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fictional dialogue Heroicus - and shows how their imaginative explorations of Homer and his relationship to history raise important questions about the nature of poetry and fiction, the identity and intentions of Homer himself, and the significance of the heroic past and Homeric authority in Imperial Greek culture"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Homer -- In literature
SUBJECT Homer fast
Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism
Trojan War -- Literature and the war
Literature and history -- Greece
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Greek literature
Literature
Literature and history
Greece
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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