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Essay On the Life and Poetry Of Homer (Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies, No. 40) by Plutarchus Chaeronensis; John J Keaney; Robert Lamberton is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the history and interpretation of Homer. Although attributed to Plutarch, the Essay is probably the work of a grammaticus of the second and thirdcentury and is the single most valuable source of evidence for the nature of the teaching of Homer in the schools of the Roman Empire. Well represented in the manuscript tradition, the Essay was used as prefatory
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- Author
- Plutarchus Chaeronensis; John J Keaney; Robert Lamberton
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780788502590
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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