How do ancient sources represent the figure of Homer? This question launches Graziosi’s study, which reaches back to the sixth and fourth centuries BC, cataloguing how ancient sources describe, debate, and imagine the poet “Homer.” The book is divided into six chapters, each tackling a different issue around Homer: his birth, name and place ofContinue reading “Book Review: Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic by Barbara Graziosi”
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Book Discussion: Singer of Tales by Albert Lord
“The picture that emerges is not really one of conflict between preserver of tradition and creative artist; it is rather one of the preservation of tradition by the constant re-creation of it. The ideal is a true story well and truly told.”—Albert Lord, “The Singer of Tales” One of the biggest challenges researchers of anyContinue reading “Book Discussion: Singer of Tales by Albert Lord”