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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friedrich, Wolf-Hartmut.
- Standardized Title:
- Verwundung und Tod in der Ilias. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Homer. Iliad.
- Homer.
- Wounds and injuries in literature.
- Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Greek.
- Trojan War--Literature and the war.
- Trojan War.
- Description (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
- Description (Rhetoric).
- History.
- Death in literature.
- Homer--Technique.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Technique.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 167 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Duckworth, 2003.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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:
- Originally published as: Verwundung und Tod in der Ilias in 1956.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Original
- ISBN:
- 9781472540492
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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