Table of Contents

1. Introduction. Imperial Homer, history, and fiction; 2. Homer, poet and historian. Herodotus and Thucydides; 3. Homer, the ideal geographer. Strabo's Geography; 4. Homer the liar. Dio Chrysostom's Trojan Oration; 5. Homer on the island. Lucian's True Stories; 6. Ghosts at Troy. Philostratus' Heroicus; 7. Epilogue.

Promotional Information

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

About the Author

Lawrence Kim is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and specialises in Greek literature and culture of the Imperial period.