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OverviewFrom antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer's epic poems - the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him - served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger and the value of strife, embracing his works as a mythographic shorthand with which to describe and interpret the era's intellectual, political, and theological struggles. Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes elegantly exposes the ways in which writers and thinkers as varied as Erasmus, Rabelais, Spenser, Milton, and Hobbes presented Homer as a great champion of conflict or its most eloquent critic. Jessica Wolfe weaves together an exceptional range of sources, including manuscript commentaries, early modern marginalia, philosophical and political treatises, and the visual arts. Wolfe's transnational and multilingual study is a landmark work in the study of classical reception that has a great deal to offer to anyone examining the literary, political, and intellectual life of early modern Europe. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jessica WolfePublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.990kg ISBN: 9781442650268ISBN 10: 1442650265 Pages: 624 Publication Date: 26 August 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews'A rich survey of Homeric reception in the Renaissance... This book will appeal to students of classical reception generally and to Renaissance scholars in particular.' -- P. Nieto Choice Magazine vol 53:07:2016 'I loved this text, a wonderful read, delightfully informative, and the kind of scholarship to which the academy should aspire.' -- Gary W. Jenkins The Sixteenth Century Journal vol 47:04:2016 'Among the most wide-ranging and extensively researched publications on classical reception in recent years, Homer and the Question of Strife is a welcome contribution.' -- David Katz Renaissance and Reformation, vol 39:02:2016 'A rich survey of Homeric reception in the Renaissance... This book will appeal to students of classical reception generally and to Renaissance scholars in particular.' -- P. Nieto Choice Magazine vol 53:07:2016 Author InformationJessica Wolfe is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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