WORKS CITED (many of which will be made available during the seminar)
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Bourdieu, Pierre. 1988. Homo Academicus. Translated by Peter Collier. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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Fowler, Robert, ed. 2004. The Cambridge Companion to Homer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
________. 2004. “The Homeric Question.” The Cambridge Companion to Homer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 220-32.
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Fowler, Robert. 1991. “Gilbert Murray: Four (Five) Stages of Greek Religion.” In William M. Calder, ed. The Cambridge Ritualists Reconsidered: Proceedings of the First Oldfather Conference, Held on the Campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 27-30, 1989. Atlanta: Scholars Press. 79-95.
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Grafton, Anthony. 1981. “Prolegomenon to Friedrich August Wolf.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtault Institutes 44: 101-29.
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Guillory, John. 1993. Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. 2003. The Powers of Philology: Dynamics of Textual Scholarship. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
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________. 2002. “Homer: The Very Idea.” Arion 10, no. 2: 57-86.
________. 2003. “The Materiality of Classical Studies.” Parallax 29, no. 4 (Declassifying Hellenism, Karen Bassi and Peter Euben, eds.): 64-74.
________. 2004a. “Homer: The History of an Idea.” In Robert Fowler, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Homer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 324-43.
________. 2004b. “Nietzsche, Homer, and the Classical Tradition.” In Paul Bishop, ed. Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 7-26.
________. 2005. “Introduction: What Is ‘Classical’ about Classical Antiquity?” In James I. Porter, ed. Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1-65.
________. Forthcoming. “Making and Unmaking: The Achaean Wall and the Limits of Fictionality in Ancient Literary Criticism,” in Homerizon, ed. Richard H. Armstrong and Casey Dué Hackney, Center for Hellenic Studies/Harvard University Press. 35 ms. pp.
Prins, Yopie. 2005. “Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania.” In Nation/Language and the Ethics of Translation. Sandra Berman and Michael Wood, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Turner, Frank M. 1981. The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Vico, Giovanni Battista. 1948. “Search for the True Homer,” in The New Science of Giambattista Vico. Translated by Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 269-294.
West, M.L. 1999. “The Invention of Homer.” Classical Quarterly 49, no. 2: 364-82.
________. 2003. Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
White, Florence Donnell. 1915. Voltaire’s Essay on Epic Poetry: A Study and an Edition. Albany, N.Y.: Brandow Print. Co.
Williams, Bernard. 1993. Shame and Necessity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
________. 2000. “Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology.” In Neil Roughley, ed. Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. 224-32.
Wolf, F. A. 1985. Prolegomena to Homer. 1795. Translated by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and James E. G Zetzel. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Wood, Michael. 1998. In Search of the Trojan War. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Wood, Robert. 1976. An Essay on the Original Genius of Homer (1769 and 1775). Hildesheim and New York: G. Olms
RECOMMENDED BOOKS (TO PURCHASE AND IF POSSIBLE TO READ IN ADVANCE)
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: Lattimore’s translations are unsurpassed for their faithfulness and for their original feel (verse numbers are exact); Fagles’s are quite excellent as well (verse numbers are inexact).
Fowler, Robert, ed. 2004. The Cambridge Companion to Homer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2nd, corrected ed. in press) [Contains eight essays on Homeric reception alone, down to the present day.]
Russell, D. A. and Michael Winterbottom. 1989. Classical Literary Criticism. The World’s Classics. Rev. ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (Contains Aristotle’s Poetics; Longinus) [Inexpensive and unbeatable translations. Others are acceptable.]
Wolf, F. A. 1985. Prolegomena to Homer. 1795. Translated by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and James E. G Zetzel. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Out of print, but available used in pb and online through ACLS History E-Book Project: consult your local university library.]
Wood, Michael. 1998. In Search of the Trojan War. Rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Additionally, all of the primary and secondary readings for the seminar will be made available for downloading (in PDF format) a good month or two in advance of the first meeting