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The Iliad : structure, myth, and meaning / Bruce Louden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Louden, Bruce, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Greek.
- Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature.
- Trojan War--Literature and the war.
- Trojan War.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Homer. Iliad.
- Homer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Louden's innovative method yields striking new insights into the formation and early literary contexts of Greek epic poetry.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE: The Principal Narrative Pattern
- CHAPTER TWO: The Overture
- CHAPTER THREE: The Middle Sequence: Parody of the Narrative Pattern
- CHAPTER FOUR: The Introductory Pattern: The Best of the Akhaians Calls an Assembly
- CHAPTER FIVE: Subgenres of Myth in the Iliad I
- CHAPTER SIX: Subgenres of Myth in the Iliad II
- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Iliad's Divine Economy, the Goddess Anat, and the Homeric Athena
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- A
- B
- D
- E
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- S
- T
- U
- Bibliography
- Index
- C
- F
- G
- J
- R
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8918-9
- OCLC:
- 213306040
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