Flesh and Spirit in the Songs of Homer: A Study of Words and Myths

by Michael Clarke

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198152637
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/20/2000
Series:	Oxford Classical Monographs
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)