Oxford Readings in Homer's Iliad
Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 January 2002
- ISBN 9780198721826
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages516 pages
- Size 215x138x27 mm
- Weight 652 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This anthology of sixteen seminal studies of Homer's Iliad offers essential insights into the poem's artistry and cultural background. Two of the contributions have been translated for this volume and others have been revised and updated. An authoritative introduction sets the papers in context and explores significant connections between them. All Greek is translated and a glossary of Greek terms is provided.
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This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric scholars from Great Britain, the United States, and Europe, deal not only with the aesthetics and artistry of the Iliad as a poetic artefact, but with its historical context, its cultural background, and its ethical and political framework. Other major topics include the relation between the Iliad and other early epics (the Odyssey, the Epic Cycle), the interface between epic and other genres, such as tragedy, and the complex interaction that exists between the Iliad and the wider traditions of oral poetry and mythical narrative in which it belongs.
Two of the contributions have been translated especially for this volume; several have been thoroughly revised and updated, and others are provided with Addenda taking account of recent work in the field. In a detailed and wide-ranging introduction Douglas Cairns sets the contributions in the context of contemporary scholarship and explores significant connections between them. All Greek is translated and a glossary of transliterated Greek terms is provided.
Accessibility is the major boon of this book ... This is a good purchase for anyone studying or teaching the Iliad who has not got the resources of a good university library readily available.
Table of Contents:
The Use and Abuse of Homer
The Making of Homer
From the Iliad to the Odyssey
Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions?
Divine and Human Causation in Homeric Epic
Affronts and Quarrels in the Iliad
Euboulia in the Iliad
Tragic Form and Feeling in the Iliad
Homer on Poetry and the Poetry of Homer
A 'Beautiful Death' and the Disfigured Corpse
The Shield of Achilles within the Iliad
The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer
Past and Future in the Iliad
The Wrath of Thetis
Mythological Paradigms in the Iliad
The Proem of the Iliad: Homer's Art
Iliad I. 366-92: A Mirror Story
Big Trouble in Little China/Escape From New York
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