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'Barry B. Powell' is the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, visiting professor at the University of New Mexico (2007) and author of the widely used textbook ''Classical Myth'' and other books. His is a specialist in Homer and in the history of writing. He has also taught Egyptian philology for many years and courses in Egyptian civilization.
Powell's study ''Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet'' advances the thesis that a single man invented the Greek alphabet expressly in order to record the poems of Homer. This thesis is controversial. The book was the subject of an international conference in Berlin in 2002 and has been influential outside classical philology, especially in media studies.
Powell's textbook, "Classical Myth," is used for classical mythology courses in America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Powell's handbook "Home," translated into foreign languages, is widely read as an introduction to philologists, hisorians, and students of literature.
"A New Companion to Homer," with Ian Morris, has been translated into modern Greek, a comprehensive review of modern scholarship.
His literary works include poetry, a novel ("Ramses in Nighttown"), and a mock-epic, "The War at Troy: A True History."

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★ Personal page

Bibliography

★ --. "Composition by Theme in the Odyssey", (Beitraege zur klassichen Philologie), 1974

★ --, ''Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet'', Cambridge University Press, 1991

★ --, "A New Companion to Homer", (with Ian Morris) E. J. Brill, 1995

★ --, ''A Short Introduction to Classical Myth'', Prentice-Hall, 2000

★ -- "The Greeks'', (with Ian Morris) Prentice-Hall, 2005

★ --, ''Ramses in Nighttown'', 2006. An illustrated novel.

★ --, ''Rooms Containing Falcons'', 2006. Poetry.

★ --, ''Helen of Troy'' (screenplay)

★ --, ''The War at Troy: A True History'', 2006, a mock-epic.

★ -- ''Classical Myth'', fifth edition, Prentice-Hall, 2006

★ --, ''Homer'', Blackwells, 2003; second edition, 2007