Homer

Homer; Hammond, Martin (Translated by): The Iliad, Harmondsworth Penguin Books; Penguin Classics 1987 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0140444440
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464 pp.; 19 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story of the Iliad centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determine the fate of Troy. But Homer's theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background. The Iliad is the first of the great tragedies. / Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer--the Iliad and the Odyssey--are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one.' Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time." - Publisher. First edition thus Mass Market Paperback 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; First edition thus

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Homer; Rieu, E. V. (Translated by): The Iliad, Harmondsworth Penguin Books; Penguin Classics 1950 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0140440143
0140440143 Very Good

xxii, 469 pp.; 18 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven in the tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, the besieged city of Ilium, the feud between the gods, and the fate of mortals. / Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time. In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time." - Publisher. Reprint, 1987 Mass Market Paperback 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Reprint, 1987

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Die Simpsons - Die komplette Season Five, Twentieth Century Fox, Mai 2005
Ein geregelter Alltag ist für die Sipmsons nach wie vor ein Fremdwort. Die Chaosfamilie erlebt ein turbulentes Abenteuer nach dem anderen. So muss Homer einige brenzlige Situationen umschiffen, sei es auf hoher See, an der Uni oder auf Geschäftsreise. Marge entdeckt ungeahnte Frauenpower und Lisa geht unter die Tüftler. Und Bart Der Chaotenhäuptling bangt diesmal um sein Leben und findet Freude an einem ausgefallenen Haustier... Episoden: Homer und die Sangesbrüder (Homer's Barbershop Quartett), Am Kap der Angst (Cape Feare), Homer an der Uni (Homer Goes To College), Kampf um Bobo (Rosebud), Die Fahrt zur Hölle (Treehouse of Horror IV), Die rebellischen Weiber (Marge on the Lam), Bart, das innere Ich (Bart's Inner Child), Auf Wildwasserfahrt (Boy-Scoutz 'N The Hood), Homer liebt Mindy (The Last Temptation of Homer), Vom Teufel besessen ($pringfield Or, How I Iearned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling), Die Springfield Bürgerwehr (Homer the Vigilante), Bart wird berühmt (Bart Gets Famous), Apu der Inder (Homer and Apu), Lisa kontra Malibu Stacy (Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy), Homer als Weltraumheld (Deep Space Homer), Homie und Neddie (Homer Loves Flanders), Bart gewinnt Elefant (Bart Gets an Elephant), Burns Erbe (Burns' Heir), Freund oder Feind (Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song), Bart packt aus (The Boy Who Knew Too Much), Liebhaber der Lady B. (Lady Bouvier's Lover), Ehegeheimnisse (Secrets of A Successful Marriage).

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Junker, Patricia; Burns, Sarah. Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler. 2003.
0500093077, FLAWLESS COPY - AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, WHY WAIT? -- 10 by 11 inches, 238 pages. The catalogue represents several firsts in American art scholarship. Homer's work in New York's Adirondacks, Quebec, and Florida represents nearly his entire watercolor output in the last twenty years of his life. The authors have tracked Homer's travels to various popular fishing locations, following his footsteps as closely as possible, thus giving added dimension to the sites and subjects in the watercolors. Moreover, the book offers an overview of sporting art in Homer's time, a field that has been largely overlooked by art historians, though the genre attracted not just Homer but other eminent painters of his day. The catalogue brings together fresh insights by acknowledged authorities. -- Publishers Weekly - - Homer's reputation has been on the rise lately, with his quintessentially "American" watercolors and drawings the subjects of major retrospectives revealing the breadth of his achievement. This volume takes a narrower look, by focusing on the place of fish and fishing in Homer's life and work. Junker is curator of paintings and sculpture at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and Burns is a professor of fine arts at Indiana University, Bloomington. This catalogue accompanies their co-curated exhibition of the same name, opening in December 2002 in San Francisco before moving on to Fort Worth. It covers everything from Homer's fishing camp in Prout's Neck, Maine, to the trout illustrations from which Homer copped some of his pictorial fish. Of its 184 illustrations, 123 are in color, with an emphasis on full-page reproduction of watercolors, including The Angler (1874), showing a raffish, bearded man casting with panache into a cascading river. While the quality of the scholarship is undeniable, this book's appeal will likely be limited to piscatorially inclined figurative art enthusiasts-which, judging from the amount of cable TV devoted to fishing and painting, may not be an insignificant demographic.
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