Homer Beside Himself: Para-Narratives in the Iliad

Homer Beside Himself: Para-Narratives in the Iliad
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Authors: Maureen Alden
Published on: 2001-03-08
Page Count: 401 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: Literary Criticism
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
Embeddable: Yes
PDF Available: Yes
EPUB Available: No
ISBN-13: 9780191590030
ISBN-10: 0191590037
In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of major paradigms to the events of the main narrative.

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