The book also includes the forging of the marvellous shield for the hero by the smith-god Hephaestus: the images on the shield are described by the poet in detail, and this description forms the archetypal ecphrasis, influential on many ...
New edition of the Greek text suitable for upper-level students, with full attention to literary-critical and linguistic matters.
This edition of the "Odyssey", books VI-VIII forms an introduction to Homer for students of Greek. The commentary aims especially to provide guidance on questions of literary and narrative technique and poetic artistry
The twenty-fourth book of the Iliad is one of the masterpieces of world literature.
First published in the outstanding and long-running 'red Macmillan' series in 1947 and substantially updated in 1959 (with, for example, sections on the relationship between Homer and the Mycenaean world), Stanford's Odyssey - of which this ...
Although the book is designed for students at sixth form and undergraduates, the tight compass of these books does not prevent the editor engaging in - or referring to - problems of composition or text addressed by more advanced scholars.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
His Phaeacian hosts are spellbound by his lengthy account of his past adventures, and King Alcinous compares him to a bard: 'upon you is a grace of words, and within you is a heart of wisdom, and your tale you have told with skill, ...
What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end,...
Ronald Speirs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ———. 2006. On the Genealogy of Morality. Ed. Keith Ansell- Pearson. Trans. Carol Dieth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Nünlist, René. 2009. The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms ...
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Kinkel, G. 1877. Epicorum Graecorum fragmenta. Leipzig: Teubner. Kirk, G. S. 1962. The Songs of Homer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. —. 1985. The “Iliad”: A Commentary. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Barbara Graziosi introduces Homer's key works and discusses the main literary, historical, and archaeological issues at the heart of Homeric studies.
This volume is a distinctive critical introduction to Homer's Iliad, the earliest epic poem, and the earliest known work of literature in ancient Greece.
Wide-ranging edition of this most diverse book of the Iliad. Suitable especially for students and their instructors.
At the same time it adumbrates Achilles' own death and the fall of Troy. This edition will help students and scholars better appreciate this key part of the epic poem.
Presents an edition of this outstanding book containing a clear and readable introduction, concise notes on the text and strong literary appreciation.
Homer: Poet of the "Iliad" is the perfect companion both for readers deepening their appreciation of the poem and its form and for those encountering Homer's work for the first...
Odysseus to be constantly called ' much enduring crafty Odysseus ' ? " To him in answer spoke prudent Telemachus ' : is the translation to be regularly dotted with such lines ? Worse , what is to be done about phrases like the holy ...
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