The Iliad and the Odyssey stand at the very beginning of Greek literature. Much has been written about their origins and authorship, but Jasper Griffin, although he touches briefly on those questions, is here concerned with the ideas of the poems, which have had such an incalculable influence on the ideas of the West. He shows that each of the two epics has its own coherent and suggestive view of the world and of man's place in it.
- ISBN10 0192875329
- ISBN13 9780192875327
- Publish Date January 1980
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 November 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 96
- Language English