The first study to examine the role and character of Homer's people in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. The Iliad and Odyssey are read as meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people.
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The first study to examine the role and character of Homer's people in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. The Iliad and Odyssey are read as meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people.
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