Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Homer and the Question of Strife -- 1 Homer, Erasmus, and the Problem of Strife -- 2 The Remedy of Contraries: Melanchthon, Rabelais, and Epic Parody -- 3 Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife -- Part 1: The Concatenation of Virtue -- Part 2: The Two Faces of Atê -- 4 Chapman's Ironic Homer -- 5 The Razor's Edge: Homer, Milton, and the Problem of Deliberation -- Part 1: The Razor's Edge -- Part 2: Moral Horizons: Milton's Horai -- 6 Hobbes's Homer and the Idols of the Agora -- Epilogue: The Homeric Contest from Vico to Arendt -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Wolfe's transnational and multilingual study is a landmark work in the study of classical reception that has a great deal to offer to anyone examining the literary, political, and intellectual life of early modern Europe.

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