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Wounding and death in the Iliad : Homeric techniques of description / Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich ; translated by Gabriele Wright and Peter Jones ; preface by Peter Jones ; appendix by K.B. Saunders.
LIBRA PA4037 .F75 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friedrich, Wolf-Hartmut.
- Standardized Title:
- Verwundung und Tod in der Ilias. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer. Iliad.
- Homer.
- Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Wounds and injuries in literature.
- Death in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 167 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Duckworth, 2003.
- Summary:
- Never before translated into English, its importance has slowly come to be recognised: first, because it discusses in detail the plausibility (or otherwise) of the wounds received on the Homeric battlefield and is therefore of considerable interest to historians of medicine; and second, because it makes a serious and sustained effort to grapple with the question of style, and thus confronts an issue which oral theory has scarcely touched.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0715629832
- OCLC:
- 53333992
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