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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 16 February 1995
- ISBN 9780198150145
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages326 pages
- Size 215x218x20 mm
- Weight 452 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
To a reader, the Iliad may seem long and shapeless. But Oliver Taplin's careful study, through sample explorations or soundings, reveals powerful networks of connected scenes and motif. These networks which may well have been more immediate to an audience gathered to hear the whole poem performed out loud, probably during the course of three successive nights.
MoreLong description:
This book combines the exploration of the`ethics' of the Iliad with its poetic and narrative techniques, which extend all the way from touches of phrasing to the shaping of whole scenes and the interaction between scenes, often separated by thousands of lines. These two approaches to the Iliad - through `content' and through `form' - are found to be inextricably worked together, which is why the book consists of `soundings', or sample explorations, where larger arguments branch out from noticing details in the formation of particular passages.
Homer was an archaic poet, and even if he could write he surely created the poems to be heard. Far from making all this intricate complexity, the discoveries of many rereadings, inapposite, this book maintains the contrary position: the kind of artistry uncovered, especially the long-distance interconnections, would be more rather than less accessible if perceived aurally. Furthermore, if the form and timing of the long sessions are arranged by the performer, then this opens up further opportunities for shapings, patterns that would be far more apparent when heard in real time than when inside the uniform format of printed pages.
These `soundings' should interest those experienced in other literatures and cultures. All quotations of Greek are also given in translation.
'There is much to appreciate here. The author us an experienced communicator, with a notably accurate knowledge and understanding of the Iliad. He helps the reader to consider questions not previously in mind. And he has made a really important advance on the problem of the relationship between the structure of the poem and its public performance some two and three quarter millennia ago.'
M.M. Willcock, University College, London, The Classical Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, 1993
