| Homer and His Age Contributor(s): Lang, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0766188418 ISBN-13: 9780766188419 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: 1906. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children's books. Lang was highly regarded as a Homeric scholar and Homer and His Age is one of the works he contributed to this area of study. Contents: The Homeric Age; Hypotheses as to the Growth of the Epics; Hypotheses of Epic Composition; Loose Feudalism: The Over-Lord in Iliad, Books I and II; Agamemnon in the Later Iliad; Archaeology of the Iliad-Burial and Cremation; Homeric Armour; The Breastplate; Bronze and Iron; The Homeric House; Notes of Change in the Odyssey; Linguistic Proofs of Various Date; The Doloneia-Iliad, Book X; The Interpolations of Nestor; The Comparative Study of Early Epics; and Homer and the French Mediaeval Epics. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Biography & Autobiography | Religious - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers |
| Dewey: 938 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.17 lbs) 364 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
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