Homer -- Themes, motives
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Homerische Becher (as originally published in the 50th Winckelmannsfeste program, in German; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1890), by Carl Robert
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Filed under: Homer- Antehomerica, Homerica et Posthomerica, ex Recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri, Accedunt Excerpta ex Chrestomathia Procli (in Greek with Latin notes; Berlin: Imp. G. Reimeri, 1816), by John Tzetzes, ed. by Immanuel Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Homer and His Age, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- The World of Homer (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910), by Andrew Lang
- The Authoress of the Odyssey (second edition, 1922), by Samuel Butler (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)
- Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Complete Concordance to the Odyssey and Hymns of Homer; To Which is Added a Concordance to the Parallel Passages in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Hymns (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1880), by Henry Dunbar
- Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Homer: The Poetry of the Past (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Andrew Laughlin Ford (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Homerische Untersuchungen (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
- The Humour of Homer, and Other Essays, by Samuel Butler, ed. by R. A. Streatfeild, contrib. by Henry Festing Jones (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Homer and History (London: Macmillan, 1915), by Walter Leaf (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Homer (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1916), by Jacob Wackernagel (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Artistry of the Homeric Simile (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library and Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, c2009), by William C. Scott
- The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile (Leiden: Brill, 1974), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
- Homeric Questions (originally published 1996), by Gregory Nagy (HTML at Harvard)
- The Unity of Homer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921), by John A. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Minor Poems of Homer: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice; Hymns and Epigrams (with introductions by Coleridge and a Life of Homer spuriously attributed to Herodotus; New York: A. Denham and Co., 1872), by Homer, trans. by Thomas Parnell, George Chapman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Congreve, Richard Hole, and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, contrib. by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Pseudo-Herodotus
- On Translating Homer (with a reply by Newman, and Arnold's reply to Newman; London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), by Matthew Arnold, contrib. by F. W. Newman
- The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Laura M. Slatkin (HTML at UC Press)
- A Companion to the Iliad, for English Readers (London and New York: Macmillan, 1892), by Walter Leaf
- Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)
- Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dante's Epic Journeys (originally published 1974; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by David Thompson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Authoress of the Odyssey (second edition, 1922), by Samuel Butler (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Commentarii ad Homeri Odysseam (2 volumes, in Greek, with some Latin; Leipzig: J. A. G. Weigel, 1825-1826), by Archbishop of Thessalonica Eustathius, ed. by Gottfried Stallbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
- Odyssee und Argonautika: Untersuchungen zur Griechischen Sagengeschichte und zum Epos (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1921), by Karl Meuli
- Pays Atlantiques Décrits par Homère: Ibérie, Gaule, Bretagne, Archipels, Amérique (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1879), by Théophile Cailleux
- Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Sam Bluefarb (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Borges: A Writer on the Edge (electronic edition, 2001), by Beatriz Sarlo (HTML at Pitt)
- Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Whitney Davis (HTML at UC Press)
- Capturing Troy: The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Guy Michael Hedreen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by W. S. Di Piero (HTML at UC Press)
- Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Whitney Davis (HTML at UC Press)
- Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Motif-Index of Italian Novella in Prose (Indiana University Publications folklore series #2; c1942), by Dominic P. Rotunda (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Maiden King in Iceland (1938), by Erik Wahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fowles/Irving/Barthes: Canonical Variations on an Apocryphal Theme (Columbus: Published for Miami University by the Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Randolph Runyon (PDF at Ohio State)
- Das Schlaraffenland in German Literature and Folksong: Social Aspects of an Earthly Paradise, With an Inquiry into its History in European Literature (University of Chicago dissertation, 1944), by Elfriede Marie Ackermann (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fair Rosamond: A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme (Northwestern University studies in the humanities #16; Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1947), by Virgil B. Heltzel (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Engraven Desire: Eros, Image and Text in the French Eighteenth Century (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Philip Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Symbol of The Beast: The Animal-Style Art of Eurasia (New York: Ronald Press, 1957), by Dagny Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story) (10 volumes; London: Privately printed by C. J. Sawyer Ltd., 1924-1928), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, ed. by N. M. Penzer, trans. by C. H. Tawney, contrib. by Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Kathá Sarit Ságara: or, Ocean of the Streams of Story (2 volumes; Kolkata: Printed by J. W. Thomas, 1880-1884), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, trans. by C. H. Tawney
- The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story (London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908), by Gordon Hall Gerould
- Odyssee und Argonautika: Untersuchungen zur Griechischen Sagengeschichte und zum Epos (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1921), by Karl Meuli
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