Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories

 

This paper is an overview of the medieval "matter of Troy" as a source and context for a wider study of the Renaissance reception of the Homeric epics. The main sources and works are taken into account, as well as their impact and the image of the Homeric poems through the medieval and early modern period.

  Full text:

Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6626Z

 

Author(s):

José Angel García Landa (see profile)

Subject(s):

Homer, Medieval literature

Tag(s):

Homer, Medieval literature, French literature, Matter of Troy

Notes:

Written 1988.

Also here:

_____. "Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories." (Typescript, Brown University, 1988). Online at Net Sight de José Angel  García Landa (2004).*

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/troy.html

         2012 DISCONTINUED 2020 – Online at the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141108083245/http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/troy.html

         2020

         https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/troy.html

         2020

_____. "Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories." SSRN 14 Dec. 2012.*

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=2188985

         2012

         Classical Tradition eJournal 14 Dec. 2012.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/Classical-Tradition.html

         2013

         English and Commonwealth Literature eJournal 14 Dec. 2012.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Commonwealth-Lit.html

         2013

_____. "Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories." ResearchGate 15 July 2013.*

         DOI 10.2139/ssrn.2188985

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249011705

         2013

_____. "Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories." Academia 14 August 2013.*

         http://www.academia.edu/4241087/

         2013 (+AI podcast, 2026)

         https://www.academia.edu/104883535/

         2023

_____. "Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories." In García Landa, Vanity Fea  28 Jan. 2018.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2018/01/homer-in-renaissance-troy-stories.html

         2018

_____. "Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories." Humanities Commons 28 Jan. 2018.*

         http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6626Z

         https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:17985/

         2018

_____. "Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories." Semantic Scholar.*

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Homer-in-the-Renaissance%3A-The-Troy-Stories-Landa-%C3%81ngel./b78e2190907f8cd5c685d6947a5645b0603f99f2

         2019

 

 

 

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An AI audio on the paper is available here:

 

_____. "Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories." AI podcast on José Angel García Landa's paper. Academia 19 May 2026.*

         http://www.academia.edu/4241087/

2026