Author: Whitman, Cedric Hubbell
Title: Homer and the Heroic Tradition
Description: Cambridge [MA], Harvard University Press, 1958. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii,365 pp. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [313]-356).. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Meaning of Unity; The Memory of the Achaeans; Athens,1200-700B.C.; Festivals, Pesistratus, & Writing; Homer & Geometric Art; Image, Symbol, and Formula; Fire & Other Elements; Homeric Character & the Tradition; Achilles: Evolution of a Hero; Fate, Time, and the Gods; The Geometric Structure of the "Iliad"; The "Odyssey" and Change.

Keywords: Classical Antiquity, Homer, Literary Criticism, Oral Literature, Greek Philology, Ancient Greece, , ,