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Homer: Iliad Book I

Homer: Iliad Book I

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Ancient History General

ISBN10: 1108412963
ISBN13: 9781108412964
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 30 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding. It provides help with the morphology, grammar, and syntax of Homeric Greek, situates the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, and elucidates its traditional language, meter, rhetoric, and style, as well as its distinctive transformation of traditional mythology and narrative motifs in accordance with its own interests, values, and poetic purposes. It also addresses the programmatic contrast in Book I between gods and humans; the characterization of both major and minor figures; and the thematic significance in Book I and the poem generally of the representation of social, cultural, religious, and ethical institutions and values. Fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, this edition also contains much of value for the scholar.

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