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050 00 $aPA3086$b.K56 2010
082 00 $a880.9/351$222
100 1 $aKim, Lawrence Young,$d1970-
245 10 $aHomer between history and fiction in imperial Greek literature /$cby Lawrence Kim.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
300 $axi, 246 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aGreek culture in the Roman world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-238) and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Imperial Homer, history, and fiction -- Homer, poet and historian: Herodotus and Thucydides -- Homer, the ideal geographer : Strabo's Geography -- Homer the liar: Dio Chrysostom's Trojan Oration -- Homer on the island. Lucian's True Stories -- Ghosts at Troy: Philostratus' Heroicus -- Epilogue.
520 $a"Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to conceptions of Imperial Hellenism. This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic - Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fictional dialogue Heroicus - and shows how their imaginative explorations of Homer and his relationship to history raise important questions about the nature of poetry and fiction, the identity and intentions of Homer himself, and the significance of the heroic past and Homeric authority in Imperial Greek culture"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism.
600 00 $aHomer$xIn literature.
650 0 $aTrojan War$xLiterature and the war.
650 0 $aLiterature and history$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 1500.
830 0 $aGreek culture in the Roman world.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/94495/cover/9780521194495.jpg