Ford. Homer: The Poetry of the Past

Today's free book is Homer: The Poetry of the Past by Andrew Ford (1992). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book from Cornell University Press is available to read online at the JSTOR Open Access project.



Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 THE GENRE: Traditional Definitions of Epic (pp. 13-56)
CHAPTER 2 THE POEM: Homer’s Muses and the Unity of Epic (pp. 57-89)
CHAPTER 3 THE POET: Tradition, Transmission, and Time (pp. 90-130)
CHAPTER 4 THE TEXT: Signs of Writing in Homer (pp. 131-171)
CHAPTER 5 POETRY: The Voice of Song (pp. 172-197)