When Homer met Phantasia: fiction, epic poetry and entertainment literature in Byzantium
Dr Aglae Pizzone is one of the British Academy’s Newton International Fellows.
The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Published in British Academy Review, No. 19 (January 2012).
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