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  • Homer

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Barbara Graziosi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become a mythical figure, and today debate continues as to whether he ever existed. In this Very ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Gods of Olympus

    A History

    by Barbara Graziosi ...
    "An engaging introduction to a fascinating topic . . . Graziosi narrates the many metamorphoses of the Greek gods with humor and erudition." ― The Christian Science MonitorThe gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, they proved to be tough ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Homer

    by Barbara Graziosi ...
    Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become a mythical figure, and even today the debate continues as to whether he ever existed. Barbara ... Read more

    $8.79 CAD

  • Homer

    The Resonance of Epic

    by Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold ...
    Series series Classical Literature and Society
    This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

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    Homer

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Barbara Graziosi ...
    Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 28 min

    Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, "the greatest poet that ever lived," is something of a mystery. By the sixth century BCE, Homer had already become a mythical figure, and today debate continues as to whether he ever existed.In this Very ... Read more

    $19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Gods of Olympus

    A History

    by Barbara Graziosi ...
    Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, they proved to be tough survivors, far outlasting classical Greece itself. In Egypt, the Olympian gods claimed to have given birth to pharaohs; in Rome, they led respectable citizens into orgiastic ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Iliad

    by Homer, Prof Barbara Graziosi ...
    Translated by Anthony Verity ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
    'War, the bringer of tears...' War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy, sparked by a quarrel between the leader of the Greek army and its mightiest warrior, Achilles, is played out between mortals and gods, with devastating human consequences. It ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Homer in the Twentieth Century

    Between World Literature and the Western Canon

    Edited by Barbara Graziosi, Emily Greenwood ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It argues that Homer was viewed both as the founding father of the Western literary canon and as sharing important features with poems, performances, and traditions which were often deemed neither literary nor Western: the epics of Yugoslavia and sub-Saharan Africa, the ... Read more

    $59.19 CAD

  • Homer: Iliad Book VI

    Edited by Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold ...
    Series Book 6 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    The sixth book of the Iliad includes some of the most memorable and best-loved episodes in the whole poem: it holds meaning and interest for many different people, not just students of ancient Greek. Book 6 describes how Glaukos and Diomedes, though fighting on opposite sides, recognise an ancient bond of hospitality and exchange gifts on the battlefield. It then follows Hector as he enters the ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Tombs of the Ancient Poets

    Between Literary Reception and Material Culture

    Edited by Nora Goldschmidt, Barbara Graziosi ...
    Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between ... Read more

    $105.59 CAD

  • Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

    Edited by Paola Bassino, Lilah Grace Canevaro, Barbara Graziosi ...
    Achilles inflicts countless agonies on the Achaeans, although he is supposed to be fighting on their side. Odysseus' return causes civil strife on Ithaca. The Iliad and the Odyssey depict conflict where consensus should reign, as do the other major poems of the early Greek hexameter tradition: Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymns describe divine clashes that unbalance the cosmos; Hesiod's Works ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies

    Edited by George Boys-Stones, Barbara Graziosi, Phiroze Vasunia ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to inform its readers, but also, importantly, to inspire them, and to enable them to pursue their own research by introducing the primary resources and exploring the latest agenda for their study. The ... Read more

    $172.79 CAD