Samuel Bassett was professor at the University of Vermont from 1905 to his death in 1936. Although he wrote extensively on Homer, The Poetry of Homer was his only book.Bruce Heiden, Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University, is the author of Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae, as well as many articles on Homeric poetry.

This is the best book on Homer in the Engligh language.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Editor's IntroductionChapter 3 An Important Homeric Problem and its PostulatesChapter 4 The Epic IllusionChapter 5 The Epic Illusion (Continued)Chapter 6 The Breaking of the Epic IllusionChapter 7 The Poet and His AudienceChapter 8 The Poet as SingerChapter 9 Homer the Poetic DemiurgeChapter 10 The Poet as Realist and as Idealist

Samuel Bassett was professor at the University of Vermont from 1905 to his death in 1936. Although he wrote extensively on Homer, The Poetry of Homer was his only book.Bruce Heiden, Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University, is the author of Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae, as well as many articles on Homeric poetry.

This is the best book on Homer in the Engligh language.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Editor's IntroductionChapter 3 An Important Homeric Problem and its PostulatesChapter 4 The Epic IllusionChapter 5 The Epic Illusion (Continued)Chapter 6 The Breaking of the Epic IllusionChapter 7 The Poet and His AudienceChapter 8 The Poet as SingerChapter 9 Homer the Poetic DemiurgeChapter 10 The Poet as Realist and as Idealist

Samuel Bassett was professor at the University of Vermont from 1905 to his death in 1936. Although he wrote extensively on Homer, The Poetry of Homer was his only book.Bruce Heiden, Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University, is the author of Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae, as well as many articles on Homeric poetry.

This is the best book on Homer in the Engligh language.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Editor's IntroductionChapter 3 An Important Homeric Problem and its PostulatesChapter 4 The Epic IllusionChapter 5 The Epic Illusion (Continued)Chapter 6 The Breaking of the Epic IllusionChapter 7 The Poet and His AudienceChapter 8 The Poet as SingerChapter 9 Homer the Poetic DemiurgeChapter 10 The Poet as Realist and as Idealist