Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes / / Jessica Wolfe.
From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer's epic poems - the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him - served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Homer and the Question of Strife
- Chapter One. Homer, Erasmus, and the Problem of Strife
- Chapter Two. The Remedy of Contraries: Melanchthon, Rabelais, and Epic Parody
- Chapter Three. Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife
- Chapter Four. Chapman's Ironic Homer
- Chapter Five. The Razor's Edge: Homer, Milton, and the Problem of Deliberation
- Chapter Six. Hobbes's Homer and the Idols of the Agora
- Epilogue: The Homeric Contest from Vico to Arendt
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index