TY - BOOK AU - Myrsiades,Kostas ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Reading Homer: film and text AV - PA4037.A5 R43 2009eb U1 - 883/.01 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Madison [NJ] PB - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press KW - Homer KW - Troy (Motion picture) KW - Motion pictures KW - Plots, themes, etc KW - Mythology in motion pictures KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : why read Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades -- Homer as history : Greeks and others in a dark age / Shawn Ross -- Geras and guest gifts in Homer / Rick M. Newton -- Homer's Odyssey, Books 19 and 23 : early recognition, a solution to the enigmas of ivory and horns, and the test of the bed / John B. Vlahos -- Conversation in the Odyssey / Scott Richardson -- The end of speeches and a speech's end : Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muth�on / Joel Christensen -- Achilles' heel : the historicism of the film Troy / Jonathan S. Burgess -- Redefining Homeric heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Charles C. Chiasson -- The Odyssey and Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life / Bruce Louden -- Reading The gunfighter as Homeric epic / Kostas Myrsiades; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10430859 ER -