Barry B. Powell
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Barry B. Powell (1942) is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a specialist in Homer and in the history of writing.
Publications[edit]
- Monographs
- Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet, Cambridge University Press, 1991, Log; 1993; 1994; 1996.
- Classical Myth, Prentice Hall, 1995; 1998; 3rd ed., 2001, OL; 2004; 2006; 2007; 2009
- editor, with Ian Morris, A New Companion to Homer, Brill, 1997, PDF.
- Εγχειρίδιο ομηρικών σπουδών, Παπαδήμας, 2009, PDF. (Greek)
- A Short Introduction to Classical Myth, Prentice Hall, 2002, 230 pp, PDF.
- Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 210 pp. Introduction.
- Homer, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003, 178 pp, PDF; 2nd ed., 2007.
- Omero, il Mulino, 2006. (Italian)
- with Ian Morris, The Greeks: History, Culture, Society, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 2009, 602 pp.
- Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization, Wiley, 2009, PDF.
- World Myth, Prentice-Hall, 2012, 600 pp.
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: The Essential Books, Oxford, 2014, 511 pp.
