Homer Among the Moderns

Table of Contents

• • Homer Among the Moderns
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note to the Online Edition
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction

• Section One: Printing and Publication

• • Introduction
  • Chapter One
    First Impressions: the editio princeps of 1489
  • Chapter Two
    Ogilby and the Odyssey
  • Chapter Three
    Fancy That: An Essay on Hobbes' Homer
  • Chapter Four
    Literary London: Pope's Iliad and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade

• Section Two: Translation Practices

• • Introduction
  • Chapter Five
    Constructions of Authorship in Valla's Iliad
  • Chapter Six
    The Editorial and Ideological Project of Lodovico Dolce’s L’Achille et l’Enea
  • Chapter Seven
    The Thing's a Sling: Source Squabbles and Mistranslation in Chapman's 1611 Iliad
  • Chapter Eight
    Paratext as Metatext and Metafiction: Contextualizing Honest Satire in Thomas Bridges’ A Burlesque Translation of Homer

• Section Three: Images

• • Introduction
  • Chapter Nine
    Illustrating the Classics and the Self: John Ogilby and his Self-Fashioning Portraits
  • Chapter Ten
    Expectation and Image(-ination): The Purpose and Reuse of Woodcuts in the Books of Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari
  • Chapter Eleven
    In Chapman’s Forge: Mistranslation as Ekphrastic Resistance
  • Chapter Twelve
    Henri Estienne’s Concepts of History and Poetry

• Section Four: Nationalism and National Identity

• • Introduction
  • Chapter Thirteen
    Homer, Venice, and Byzantium: Aldus Manutius’ First Edition of the Iliad
  • Chapter Fourteen
    Alfonso, Valla, & Homer: Poetry and Politics in Renaissance Naples
  • Chapter Fifteen
    The Language Question: Cultural Politics of the Medici Dynasty
  • Chapter Sixteen
    Translating Homer in the French Renaissance: The 1584 French Verse Translation of the Iliad
  • Chapter Seventeen
    “Too Much of a Modern Beau”: Macpherson’s Iliad and the Nationalist Epic
• • Conclusion
  • Appendix
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