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Homer and the Sacred City
Homer and the Sacred City
Author: Stephen Scully
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 litera...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801424649
ISBN-10: 080142464X
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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