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Homer: Understanding ClassicsUnderstanding Classics Series What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central paradox of 'Homer' is that while recognized as producing poetry of incomparable genius even in the ancient world nobody knew who he was. As a result, the myth maker became the subject of myth. For the satirist Lucian (c. 125 180

or can be plausibly inferred

half goat and half men

Many symposia were more formal affairs

reliable and lively source that documents Egypt in more detail than any other Roman province

This book by one of the preeminent Virgil scholars of our day is the first comprehensive study of ekphrasis in Virgil’s final masterpiece

the illustrious singers of sixth-century Lesbos

and was prominent in several major prosecutions

and after his trial

first published in 1972

From prehistoric settlements of Troy

vocabulary with a simplified pronunciation guide

in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story