Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation by Johannes Haubold

Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation

Cambridge Classical Studies

Johannes Haubold

258 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary poetry medium-paced
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This is the first study to examine in detail the role and character of Homer's people (Greek laoi) in Homeric storytelling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both the Iliad and the Ody...

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