{"product_id":"performing-homer-the-voyage-of-ulysses-from-epic-to-opera","title":"Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe epic poems the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance. Deeply embedded in these works is the notion that they were intended to be heard: there is something musical about Homer's use of language and a vivid quality to his images that transcends the written page to create a theatrical experience for the listener. Indeed, it is precisely the \u003ci\u003etheatrical\u003c\/i\u003e quality of the poems that would inspire later interpreters to cast the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e in a host of other media-novels, plays, poems, paintings, and even that most elaborate of all art forms, opera, exemplified by no less a work than Monteverdi's \u003ci\u003eIl ritorno di Ulisse in patria\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003ePerforming Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003escholars in classics, drama, Italian literature, art history, and musicology explore the journey of Homer's \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e from ancient to modern times. The book traces the reception of the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e though the Italian humanist sources—from Dante, Petrarch, and Ariosto—to the treatment of the tale not only by Monteverdi but also such composers as Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Gluck, and Alessandro Scarlatti, and the dramatic and poetic traditions thereafter by such modern writers as Derek Walcott and Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49604545020248,"sku":"9781409445630","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781409445630_88b45563-9632-4f6e-8c0a-50c5391870b3.jpg?v=1769579128","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/performing-homer-the-voyage-of-ulysses-from-epic-to-opera","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}