A referential commentary and lexicon to Iliad VIII / by Adrian Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Adrian, 1972-

Series:

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer. Iliad.

Homer.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Achilles (Mythological character)--In literature.

Achilles.

Trojan War--Literature and the war.

Trojan War.

Physical Description:

viii, 515 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of this type of narrative. To that end, Adrian Kelly presents the text of Iliad VIII next to an apparatus referring to the traditional units being employed, and gives a brief description of their semantic impact. He describes the referential curve of the narrative in a continuous commentary, tabulates all the traditional units in a separate lexicon of Homeric structure, and examines critical decisions concerning the text in a discussion which employs the referential method as a critical criterion. Two small appendices deal with speech introduction formulae, and with the traditional function of Here and Athene in early Greek epic poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-444) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199203555

9780199203550

OCLC:

71541572