Iliad. Book I / Homer ; edited by Seth L. Schein, emeritus professor of comparative literature, University of California, Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Homer, author.

Contributor:

Schein, Seth L., editor.

Series:

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics

Standardized Title:

Iliad. Book 1. Greek (Schein)

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Homer. Iliad--Book 1.

Homer.

Achilles (Mythological character)--Poetry.

Achilles.

Trojan War--Poetry.

Trojan War.

Achilles (Mythological character).

Iliad (Homer).

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Text in Greek; introduction and commentary in English.

Summary:

"The Iliad is organized according to two complementary, mutually reinforcing artistic principles, one related to its traditional narrative and mythological content, the other to its symmetrical form and to eighth-century aesthetic norms. The narrative moves linearly toward the death of Achilles and the fall of Troy, both of which, as Homer's audiences knew, will follow shortly after the burial of Hektor with which the Iliad concludes, and both of which are anticipated with increasing frequency in the course of the poem. In the mortal world of the Iliad, the movement toward death is a one-way movement, an overriding reality that lends the poem much of its power as a representation of the human condition. Nevertheless, as Aristotle observed, unlike other epic poets who told in chronological order everything that was supposed to have happened in the course of the events they described, Homer organized the Iliad and Odyssey thematically, rather than chronologically, each around a single subject - the wrath of Achilles and its consequences and the man Odysseus and his return home - and gave them an organic unity in which, in the case of the Iliad, the death of Achilles and fall of Troy have no place. Even so, most events in the poem are told in the order in which they occur; there is nothing like the extraordinarily complex narrative form of the Odyssey, with its multiple plots, its movement back and forth in time, its numerous internal narrators and narrative perspectives, and its constant change of locale"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Quotations, citations, and abbreviations

Abbreviations of standard reference works

Introduction

1. Contexts. 1.1. The poetic context

1.2. The historical context

2. The Structure of the 'Iliad'

3. Book I in the 'Iliad'. 3.1. The plan of Zeus

3.2. Achilles. 3.2.1. Mortality

3.2.2. Honor

3.3. Other characters

4. The Gods in the 'Iliad'. 4.1. The Olympian gods

4.2. Gods and humans

5. Meter, Language, and Style. 5.1. Meter. 5.1.1. Heavy and light syllables

5.1.2. The dactylic hexameter

5.1.3. Prosodic freedom

5.1.4. Scansion

5.2. The Homeric language. 5.2.1. Literary language and the mixture of dialects

5.2.2. Evolution of the literary language

5.2.3. Some morphological features of Homeric Greek

5.2.4. Notes on syntax

5.3. Style. 5.3.1. Formulas

5.3.2. The narrative

5.3.3. The speeches

5.3.4. Mythological allusion

5.3.5. Parataxis

6. The Transmission of the Text. 6.1. Manuscripts, scholia, papyri

6.2. The proem

6.3. Book divisions and titles

A note on the text and 'Apparatus Criticus'

ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΔΟΣ Α

Commentary

Works cited

Indexes. 1. Subjects ; 2. Greek words.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-229) and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Homer. Iliad. Book 1

ISBN:

9781108420082

1108420087

9781108412964

1108412963

OCLC:

1291600964