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"The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" stand at the very beginning of Greek literature. Much has been written about their origins and authorship, but Jasper Griffin, although he touches briefly on those questions, is here concerned with the ideas of the poems, which have had such an incalculable influence on the ideas of the West. He shows that each of the two epics has its own coherent and suggestive view of the world and of man's place in it.
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Aaron Denman
reviewed Homer on February 24, 2016
Homer
Jasper is very interested in the formality and hierarchy within Homer's plays. He see the Iliad, which he finds the better song, as tragedy of heroism, where characters suffer and die because of choices forced on them in order to maintain their heroic role. The Odyssey is more a story, where Odysseus in particular stretches the heroic ideal.
Well that's the simplified summary. I liked where Griffin took his arguments. I didn't like that he promised "to explain and justify" a statement by Matthew Arnold that Homer is great "in the noble and profound application of ideas to life.". I think he promised a lot there and delivered only a little. Actually my biggest complaint here is that Griffin, limited to 80 pages, never really boiled it down. He really makes a handful of points, but never makes the case that these are the handful of points one should make in 80 pages or less. But than how much can he do in 80 pages?
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