Studies on Homer and the Homeric age
by Gladstone, W. E., (William Ewart)
Four-time prime minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was also a prolific author and enthusiastic scholar of the classics. Gladstone had spent almost two decades in politics prior to his writing the three-volume Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. This work and the preceding 'On the place of Homer in classical education and in historical inquiry' (1857), reflect Gladstone's interest in the Iliad and the Odyssey, which he read with increasing frequency from the 1830s onward and which he…
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Four-time prime minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was also a prolific author and enthusiastic scholar of the classics. Gladstone had spent almost two decades in politics prior to his writing the three-volume Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. This work and the preceding 'On the place of Homer in classical education and in historical inquiry' (1857), reflect Gladstone's interest in the Iliad and the Odyssey, which he read with increasing frequency from the 1830s onward and which he viewed as particularly relevant to modern society. As he relates, he has two objects in the Studies: 'to promote and extend' the study of Homer's 'immortal poems' and 'to vindicate for them ... their just degree both of absolute and, more especially, of relative critical value'. Volume 1 establishes Homer's contemporary relevance and provides an extensive 'ethnography of Greek races' related to Homer's works.
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- Publication Date:2010.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
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- Description:1 online resource
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- ISBN:9780511708091, 0511708092, 9781108012041, 1108012043, 9780511708107, 0511708106, 9781108012058, 1108012051, 9780511708114, 0511708114, 9781108012065, 110801206X
- oclc:ocn759812002
- LC Classification:PA4037
- Dewey Decimal:883
Table of Contents
v. 1. Prolegomena ; Achæis: or, The ethnology of the Greek races -- v. 2. Olympus; or, The religion of the Homeric age -- v. 3. Agorè ; Ilios ; Thalassa ; Aoidos.
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