Flesh and Spirt in the Songs of Homer

ISBN-13: 9780198152637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 400 str.

Michael Clarke

Opis

This book offers a newly integrated interpretation of Homeric man. The author starts with the working hypothesis that, in this poetry, the human being is not divided into two parts - inner and outer; body and soul; flesh and spirit - but stands as an indivisible unity. The last part of this analysis leads to a reassessment of the Homeric psuche.

Recenzje

A closely argued but very readable study of Homeric life and death, based on a doctoral dissertation. Clarke's central thesis is that a distinction between soul and body (misleadingly characterized as "modern") is foreign to epic poetry.

O autorze

Michael Clarke is a Lecturer at the Department of Ancient Classics, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.