Winnowing Oar - New Perspectives in Homeric Studies

This volume brings together cutting-edge research from a cohort of acclaimed scholars on Homer and the Homeric Hymns. The relevant studies deal with textual issues, language and interpretation of obscure formulas, Achilles and Odysseus, Homeric poetics, the function of repetition, interpretive issues concerning the composition of the Homeric epics, the Apologoi and 'Cyclic' Narrative, as well as the Homeric Hymns to Hermes and Aphrodite.