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Reviews for Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and Politics

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The average rating for Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and Politics based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.has a rating of 3 stars

Review # 1 was written on 2011-11-14 00:00:00
2004was given a rating of 3 stars Matthew Rigney
G.P. Shipp's "Studies in the Language of Homer" is a short but very dense book. Shipp examines various oddities and anomalies of the language of the Homeric poems. (In the first edition, which I read, he primarily focuses on the Iliad; I gather that the second edition considers the Odyssey in more detail.) Shipp's discussions are very erudite and require knowledge of Greek to appreciate. I assume he wrote this book for an audience of fellow scholars. There is very little here for the general reader to grab onto. My biggest problem with "Studies in the Language of Homer" was that it never answers the question, "So what?" Shipp spends the biggest part of the book looking at the language in Homer's similes in particular. He seems to want to demonstrate that they must be a later addition to the poems. But he never actually makes that argument. He just lays out his data and leaves it up to us to draw our own conclusions. All but the most devoted scholars can safely skip this one.
Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-08 00:00:00
2004was given a rating of 3 stars Travis Schatz
I had to read this book for a Classical Literature class and I honestly enjoyed it. It is not like other mandatory reads where my eyes fall closed after only a few pages. This was so interesting and enjoyable.


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