Reading Homer film and text /
Reading Homer film and text / [electronic resource] :
edited by Kostas Myrsiades.
- Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.
- 258 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : why read Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades -- Homer as history : Greeks and others in a dark age / Shawn Ross -- Geras and guest gifts in Homer / Rick M. Newton -- Homer's Odyssey, Books 19 and 23 : early recognition, a solution to the enigmas of ivory and horns, and the test of the bed / John B. Vlahos -- Conversation in the Odyssey / Scott Richardson -- The end of speeches and a speech's end : Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthon / Joel Christensen -- Achilles' heel : the historicism of the film Troy / Jonathan S. Burgess -- Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Charles C. Chiasson -- The Odyssey and Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life / Bruce Louden -- Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
Homer--Influence.
Troy (Motion picture)
Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.
Mythology in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PA4037.A5 / R43 2009
883/.01
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : why read Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades -- Homer as history : Greeks and others in a dark age / Shawn Ross -- Geras and guest gifts in Homer / Rick M. Newton -- Homer's Odyssey, Books 19 and 23 : early recognition, a solution to the enigmas of ivory and horns, and the test of the bed / John B. Vlahos -- Conversation in the Odyssey / Scott Richardson -- The end of speeches and a speech's end : Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthon / Joel Christensen -- Achilles' heel : the historicism of the film Troy / Jonathan S. Burgess -- Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Charles C. Chiasson -- The Odyssey and Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life / Bruce Louden -- Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
Homer--Influence.
Troy (Motion picture)
Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.
Mythology in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PA4037.A5 / R43 2009
883/.01