SIMON GOLDHILL is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Academy. His books have been translated into twelve languages and won three international prizes. He has lectured and broadcast on radio and television all over the world. His most recent book is The Christian Invention of Time (Cambridge, 2022).

'Goldhill is an alert, subtle and well-informed critic, both of ancient literature and of modern commentary. The routes he takes to his conclusions often raise questions not to be dismissed lightly.' Malcolm Heath, Professor of Greek Language and Literature, University of Leeds

• Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Sounding Out The Poet's Voice; 1. The poet hero: language and representation in the Odyssey; 2. Intimations of immortality: fame and tradition from Homer to Pindar; 3. Comic inversion and inverted commas: Aristophanes and parody; 4. Framing, polyphony and desire: Theocritus and Hellenistic poetics; 5. The paradigms of epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the example of the past; Bibliography; Index.

SIMON GOLDHILL is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Academy. His books have been translated into twelve languages and won three international prizes. He has lectured and broadcast on radio and television all over the world. His most recent book is The Christian Invention of Time (Cambridge, 2022).

'Goldhill is an alert, subtle and well-informed critic, both of ancient literature and of modern commentary. The routes he takes to his conclusions often raise questions not to be dismissed lightly.' Malcolm Heath, Professor of Greek Language and Literature, University of Leeds

• Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Sounding Out The Poet's Voice; 1. The poet hero: language and representation in the Odyssey; 2. Intimations of immortality: fame and tradition from Homer to Pindar; 3. Comic inversion and inverted commas: Aristophanes and parody; 4. Framing, polyphony and desire: Theocritus and Hellenistic poetics; 5. The paradigms of epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the example of the past; Bibliography; Index.

SIMON GOLDHILL is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Academy. His books have been translated into twelve languages and won three international prizes. He has lectured and broadcast on radio and television all over the world. His most recent book is The Christian Invention of Time (Cambridge, 2022).

'Goldhill is an alert, subtle and well-informed critic, both of ancient literature and of modern commentary. The routes he takes to his conclusions often raise questions not to be dismissed lightly.' Malcolm Heath, Professor of Greek Language and Literature, University of Leeds

• Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Sounding Out The Poet's Voice; 1. The poet hero: language and representation in the Odyssey; 2. Intimations of immortality: fame and tradition from Homer to Pindar; 3. Comic inversion and inverted commas: Aristophanes and parody; 4. Framing, polyphony and desire: Theocritus and Hellenistic poetics; 5. The paradigms of epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the example of the past; Bibliography; Index.