Synopsis
1906. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children's books. Lang was highly regarded as a Homeric scholar and Homer and His Age is one of the works he contributed to this area of study. Contents: The Homeric Age; Hypotheses as to the Growth of the Epics; Hypotheses of Epic Composition; Loose Feudalism: The Over-Lord in Iliad, Books I and II; Agamemnon in the Later Iliad; Archaeology of the Iliad-Burial and Cremation; Homeric Armour; The Breastplate; Bronze and Iron; The Homeric House; Notes of Change in the Odyssey; Linguistic Proofs of Various Date; The Doloneia-Iliad, Book X; The Interpolations of Nestor; The Comparative Study of Early Epics; and Homer and the French Mediaeval Epics. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.