Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction : why read Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades — Homer as history : Greeks and others in a dark age / Shawn Ross — Geras and guest gifts in Homer / Rick M. Newton — Homer’s Odyssey, Books 19 and 23 : early recognition, a solution to the enigmas of ivory and horns, and the test of the bed / John B. Vlahos — Conversation in the Odyssey / Scott Richardson — The end of speeches and a speech’s end : Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthôn / Joel Christensen — Achilles’ heel : the historicism of the film Troy / Jonathan S. Burgess — Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy / Charles C. Chiasson — The Odyssey and Frank Capra’s It’s a wonderful life / Bruce Louden — Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades.

Subjects:

• Homer — Criticism and interpretation.
• Homer — Influence.
• Motion pictures — Plots, themes, etc.
• Mythology in motion pictures.
• Troy (Motion picture)

Requested by Green, D.