Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Editor's Introduction Chapter 3 An Important Homeric Problem and its Postulates Chapter 4 The Epic Illusion Chapter 5 The Epic Illusion (Continued) Chapter 6 The Breaking of the Epic Illusion Chapter 7 The Poet and His Audience Chapter 8 The Poet as Singer Chapter 9 Homer the Poetic Demiurge Chapter 10 The Poet as Realist and as Idealist

About the Author

Samuel Bassett was professor at the University of Vermont from 1905 to his death in 1936. Although he wrote extensively on Homer, The Poetry of Homer was his only book. Bruce Heiden, associate professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University, is the author of Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae, as well as many articles on Homeric poetry.

Reviews

This is the best book on Homer in the Engligh language.
*Necj Reviews*