Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad

Eva T. H. Brann
Role: Author
Written by the 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

Eva Brann demonstrates a way of reading Homer’s poems that yields up their hidden treasures. With an alert eye for Homer’s extraordinary visual effects and a keen ear for the musicality of his language, she helps the reader see the flickering campfires of the Greeks and hear the roar of the surf and the singing of nymphs. In Homeric Moments, Brann takes readers beneath the captivating surface of the poems to explore the inner connections and layers of meaning that have made the epics “the marvel of the ages.”