A new companion to Homer / / edited by Ian Morris and Barry Powell.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 163
• TeilnehmendeR: Morris, Ian, 1960-; Powell, Barry B.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : Brill,, 1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 163; Mnemosyne, Supplements 163.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 755 pages, [15] pages of plates) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Updated edition of: A companion to Homer. 1962.; Series statement on jacket.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Homer and Writing /; Homer in Antiquity /; Homeric Papyri and Transmission of The Text /; Homeric Scholia /; The Homeric Question /; Oral Tradition and its Implications /; Neoanalysis /; Homer’s Dialect /; Homer’s Meter /; The Formula /; Homeric Style and Oral Poetics /; The Study of Homeric Discourse /; Homer and Narratology /; Quantifying Epic /; The Iliad: Structure and Interpretation /; The Structures of the Odyssey /; Modern Theoretical Approaches to Homer /; Epic as Genre /; Myth in Homer /; Homer and the Folktale /; Homer and Hesiod /; The Homeric Hymns /; Homer and the Bronze Age /; Homer and the Iron Age /; Homer and Greek Art /; Homer and the Near East /; Homeric Society /; The Homeric Economy /; Homeric Warfare /; Homeric Ethics /; Select Bibliography /; Index /; Companion to Homer.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 715-745) and index.
• ISBN: 0585367639; 9004217606
• ISSN: 0169-8958
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ian Morris and Barry Powell.

This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields comprehensively. Thirty leading scholars from Europe and America provide short, authoritative overviews of the state of knowledge and current controversies in the many specialist divisions in Homeric studies. The chapters pay equal attention to literary, mythological, linguistic, historical, and archaeological topics, ranging from such long-established problems as the \'Homeric Question\' to newer issues like the relevance of narratology and computer-assisted quantification. The collection, the third publication in Brill's handbook series, The Classical Tradition , will be valuable at every level of study - from the general student of literature to the Homeric specialist seeking a general understanding of the latest developments across the whole range of Homeric scholarship.