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Homer Between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature

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Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature - Kim, Lawrence
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Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to conceptions of Imperial Hellenism. This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic - Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fictional dialogue ...

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Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature 2015, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107485297

Trade paperback

Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature 2010, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521194495

Hardcover