This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian
literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek …

Why is it that some films are called epics? Audiences know that such films will be large-
scale, spectacular productions, but does the term have deeper cultural significance? In …

In Piecing Together the Fragments, translator and poet Josephine Balmer examines the art
of classical translation from the perspective of the practitioner. Positioning her study within …

What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic
epics of antiquity? Yet the author of these immortal texts remains, in the end, an enigma. The …

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Page 4 Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception …

This collective volume provides a fresh perspective on Homeric reception through a
methodologically focused, interdisciplinary investigation of the transformations of Homeric …

This article presents a case study on sound effects in Christopher Logue's adaptation of
Homer's Iliad, a project that began when Logue adapted Achilles' fight with the river …

This article examines the reception of Homeric epic in twentieth-and twenty-first century
anglophone literature via a reading of formal opening and closing devices. Works discussed …

Some of you may recognize that my title comes from the Motown soul song “War,” by
Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, originally sung in 1969 by The Temptations but best …

The Rescue, Edward Sackville-West's 1943 radio dramatization of part of Homer's Odyssey
with music by Benjamin Britten, appears to be the first substantial treatment of Homeric epic …