Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- Part 1 The poems and their narrator
- Part 2 The characters
- Part 3 The poet’s craft
- Part 4 Text and context
- 11 Epic as genre
- 12 The epic tradition in Greece
- 13 Homer’s society
- 14 The Homeric question
- Part 5 Homeric receptions
- Dateline
- List of works cited
- Index of passages discussed
- General Index
11 - Epic as genre
from Part 4 - Text and context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction
- Part 1 The poems and their narrator
- Part 2 The characters
- Part 3 The poet’s craft
- Part 4 Text and context
- 11 Epic as genre
- 12 The epic tradition in Greece
- 13 Homer’s society
- 14 The Homeric question
- Part 5 Homeric receptions
- Dateline
- List of works cited
- Index of passages discussed
- General Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to Homer , pp. 171 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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