Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on texts, translations, and abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Imperial Homer, history, and fiction
- 2 Homer, poet and historian: Herodotus and Thucydides
- 3 Homer, the ideal historian: Strabo's Geography
- 4 Homer the liar: Dio Chrysostom's Trojan Oration
- 5 Homer on the island: Lucian's True Stories
- 6 Ghosts at Troy: Philostratus' Heroicus
- 7 Epilogue
- Works cited
- Index
- Index locorum
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on texts, translations, and abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Imperial Homer, history, and fiction
- 2 Homer, poet and historian: Herodotus and Thucydides
- 3 Homer, the ideal historian: Strabo's Geography
- 4 Homer the liar: Dio Chrysostom's Trojan Oration
- 5 Homer on the island: Lucian's True Stories
- 6 Ghosts at Troy: Philostratus' Heroicus
- 7 Epilogue
- Works cited
- Index
- Index locorum
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010