The querelle des anciens et des modernes - the question whether writers should imitate the classics or use literary forms which seemed more suited to their own

In this classic work, Robert Wood challenges the prevailing view of Homer as a primitive and uneducated bard and presents him as a learned poet, deeply engaged

The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary of his death and provides the general rea

This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields