Ebook: Tales of Heroes: The Origins of the Homeric Texts

A massive, extensively illustrated work constituting a rich survey and synthesis of scholarship on the Homeric question. Dr. Shear demonstrates that the origins of the tales, that later came to be known as the Iliad and the Odyssey, are to be found in the Bronze Age. She re-examines the ancient references to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey giving us a new understanding of the circumstances which led to the transcription of the texts we have today. Tales of Heroes provides new insights ..