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Book SynopsisWolfe's transnational and multilingual study is a landmark work in the study of classical reception that has a great deal to offer to anyone examining the literary, political, and intellectual life of early modern Europe.
Trade Review'A rich survey of Homeric reception in the Renaissance... This book will appeal to students of classical reception generally and to Renaissance scholars in particular.' -- P. Nieto Choice Magazine vol 53:07:2016 'I loved this text, a wonderful read, delightfully informative, and the kind of scholarship to which the academy should aspire.' -- Gary W. Jenkins The Sixteenth Century Journal vol 47:04:2016 'The book represents a work of wide-ranging learning and careful delving, and it is a comprehensive study; therefore, it is certainly very useful and valuable to philologists, historians, and Homeric scholars.' -- Luigi Ferreri Renaissance Quarterly vol 70: 01:2017 'Among the most wide-ranging and extensively researched publications on classical reception in recent years, Homer and the Question of Strife is a welcome contribution.' -- David Katz Renaissance and Reformation, vol 39:02:2016
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Homer and the Question of Strife Chapter 1: Homer, Erasmus, and the Problem of Strife Chapter 2: The Remedy of Contraries: Homer, Rabelais, and Epic Parody Chapter 3: Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife Chapter 4. Chapman's Ironic Homer Chapter 5. The Razors Edge: Homer, Milton, and the Problem of Deliberation Chapter 6: Hobbes' Homer and the Idols of the Agora Epilogue: The Homeric Contest from Vico to Arendt
