Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes

Jessica Wolfe is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Introduction: Homer and the Question of StrifeChapter 1: Homer, Erasmus, and the Problem of StrifeChapter 2: The Remedy of Contraries: Homer, Rabelais, and Epic Parody Chapter 3: Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of StrifeChapter 4. Chapman’s Ironic HomerChapter 5. The Razors Edge: Homer, Milton, and the Problem of Deliberation Chapter 6: Hobbes’ Homer and the Idols of the AgoraEpilogue: The Homeric Contest from Vico to Arendt

‘A rich survey of Homeric reception in the Renaissance….  This book will appeal to students of classical reception generally and to Renaissance scholars in particular.’- P. Nieto (Choice Magazine vol 53:07:2016) ‘Among the most wide-ranging and extensively researched publications on classical reception in recent years, Homer and the Question of Strife is a welcome contribution.’- David Katz (Renaissance and Reformation, vol 39:02:2016) ‘I loved this text, a wonderful read, delightfully informative, and the kind of scholarship to which the academy should aspire.’- Gary W. Jenkins (The Sixteenth Century Journal vol 47:04:2016) ‘The book represents a work of wide-ranging learning and careful delving, and it is a comprehensive study; therefore, it is certainly very useful and valuable to philologists, historians, and Homeric scholars.’- Luigi Ferreri (Renaissance Quarterly vol 70: 01:2017) ‘The studies which make up this magnificent, searching book take the reception history of Homer into an unusual grouping of early-modern authors… This book is well produced and edited.’- John Hale (Erudition and the Republic of Letters, vol 2:02:2017) "This is a major contribution to all of the fields in which it intervenes, and one that will fundamentally reshape discussions of Homer and classical reception in the Renaissance…This is a book that no scholar of Homer, humanism, intellectual history, classical reception, or translation can afford to be without."- Sarah van der Laan, Indiana University (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018)