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Archaeology and Homeric Epic
Susan Sherratt
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Description for Archaeology and Homeric Epic
Paperback. Important new multi-disciplinary exploration of the relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology employing a variety of approaches drawn from archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history Editor(s): Bennet, John; Sherratt, Susan. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 202 x 241 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics. Archaeology and the Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity in favour of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use a multi-disciplinary approach - archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history - to help offer insights into the ... Read more
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics. Archaeology and the Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity in favour of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use a multi-disciplinary approach - archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history - to help offer insights into the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785702952
SKU
V9781785702952
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About Susan Sherratt
Susan Sherratt is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of the Aegean, Cyprus and the wider eastern Mediterranean, particularly in all aspects of trade and interaction within and beyond these regions and in exploring the ways in which the Homeric epics and the archaeological record can ... Read more
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