Barbara Graziosi: 7 books

Un giorno il tiranno di Siracusa convocò il poeta Simonide e gli domandò che cosa fosse un dio. Simonide richiese un giorno di tempo per pensarci. Trascorsi ormai diversi giorni, il tiranno pretese una risposta, ma il poeta ammise: «Più tempo passo a riflettere sulla questione, e più oscura mi...

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become...

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already...

An elegant and entertaining account of the transformations of the Greek gods across the ages, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the present day The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just...

'War, the bringer of tears...' War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy, sparked by a quarrel between the leader of the Greek army and its mightiest...

This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products...

Omero è mai esistito? L’autore di Iliade e Odissea è avvolto dal mistero. La questione omerica alimenta da millenni il dibattito su quello che Dante chiama il ‘sovrano poeta’. In questo libro l’autrice ricostruisce il profilo di Omero nel suo contesto a partire dalla tradizione orale e dall'impatto...