Homer: Classical Life and Letters

viii, 191 pp. ...covers in detail the special requirements of oral composition and the atmosphere of the Greek Heroic Age, and devotes a chapter each to the Iliad and Odyssey treated separately. He shows his mastery equally in discussion of literary points, such as epic formulae, similes and the "poetry of action", and in his treatment of the disputed issues of composition that make up the age-old Homeric Question.--jacket