THORPE, MARTIN — Homer [ Inside the ancient world series]

London, Macmillan. 1973, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0333147448) Soft cover. Book, " A short summary of the events of the Iliad and the Odyssey and the mythological background to the Trojan War. Subsequent chapters deal with the tradition of oral poetry in which Homer worked . the human society of the poems, the ideal of heroic life, and the position of the lower classes. the role of the gods and the attitude of mortals to them . Homer's skill as a poet. 80p. illus .index. Near Fine.