TY - BOOK AU - Myrsiades,Kostas ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Reading Homer: film and text AV - PA4037.A5 R43 2009 U1 - 883/.01 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Madison [NJ] PB - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press KW - Homer KW - Troy (Motion picture) KW - Motion pictures KW - Plots, themes, etc KW - Mythology in motion pictures KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3116009 ER -