Homer and the sacred city / Stephen Scully.
PRINT BOOK | Cornell University Press | 1994.
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Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Copyright Date
©1990
Description
xi, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Series
Bibliog.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and indexes.
Contents
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Toward a definition of the polis in Homer -- 2. The sacred polis -- 3. The walled polis -- 4. The people of the polis -- 5. City epithets and Homeric poetics -- 6. History and composition -- 7. Oikos and polis in the Homeric poems -- 8. Achilles, Troy, and Hektor : a configuration -- Appendix 1. Nature and technology in place epithets -- Appendix 2. Sacred places -- Appendix 3. Sacred cities of the east -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- General index -- Index of ancient passages cited.
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ISBN
9780801482021 paperback
080148202X paperback
9780801424649 cloth ; alk. paper
080142464X cloth ; alk. paper
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