1. Introduction. Imperial Homer, history, and fiction; 2. Homer, poet and historian. Herodotus and Thucydides; 3. Homer, the ideal geographer. Strabo's Geography; 4. Homer the liar. Dio Chrysostom's Trojan Oration; 5. Homer on the island. Lucian's True Stories; 6. Ghosts at Troy. Philostratus' Heroicus; 7. Epilogue.

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Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

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Lawrence Kim is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and specialises in Greek literature and culture of the Imperial period.

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