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The tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the epic cycle

Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of the Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.

Main Author: Burgess, Jonathan S., 1960-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Physical Description: xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Homer -- Knowledge and learning -- Troy (Extinct city)
Homer -- Influence.
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
Trojan War -- Literature and the war.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature and history -- Greece.
Lost literature -- Greece.
Troy (Extinct city) -- In literature.
Cycles (Literature)

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